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New Fahe Policy Brief: BABA Should Not Apply to HUD Housing Programs

May 7, 2026

America’s housing shortage has become a crisis for families, communities, and local economies. Across the country, policymakers are looking for ways to increase housing supply and reduce the costs

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Fahe Launches Multi-State Housing Can’t Wait Campaign to Confront the Economic and Workforce Impact of Housing Shortages

February 19, 2026

Highlighting state-level housing supply gaps, the campaign delivers investment-ready solutions to accelerate housing production across five Appalachian states BEREA, KY – February 19, 2026 — Fahe

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Why the HOME Program Matters for Appalachia

September 2, 2025

For decades, the HOME Program has been a lifeline for families in underfunded rural communities. Eliminating it would reverse hard-won

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Positioning Fahe as the First Call for Housing Policy

February 17, 2025

At the start of each year, state legislators convene to set policy priorities and budgets. For Fahe’s advocacy work, this is a critical time to engage policymakers in conversations about housing

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Hill Briefing on Rural Income Limit Fairness

August 28, 2024

Despite Congress’s best intentions, low-income communities in states with high concentrations of rural poverty are doubly disadvantaged by the current system, which compares people to their

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Making housing a priority: Maggie Riden discusses a new Fahe advocacy case study

June 3, 2024

A new Fahe advocacy case study Making Housing a Priority reveals the power of collaborative state advocacy and provides insights to inspire housing and community development organizations to

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Fahe Members Join Coalition to Support “Have a Heart for Housing” Advocacy Day

January 12, 2024

Affordable housing developers, advocates, and community members from Letcher County to Louisville, KY, showed up at the Capitol Annex in Frankfort, KY on January 9 to advocate for major investments

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Meeting the Moment for the Housing Affordability Crisis

September 14, 2022

The Fahe Network Talks ‘Concrete Solutions’ for Today’s Housing Affordability Crisis With the Fahe Annual Meeting fast approaching, reflecting on some of the important conversations regarding

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Dissecting the Congressional Appropriations Process

May 20, 2022

How Fahe Members Turn Advocacy into Impact for Our Neighbors Fahe Members work every day to turn federal investments into stable homes, stronger communities, and better infrastructure for their

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“Infrastructure Week” Comes to Appalachia with Enactment of Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act

November 22, 2021

Once-in-a-Generation Investment Promises to Make the American Dream a Reality for Millions of Families On November 15th, 2021, after months of negotiations among House and Senate leaders, the

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