How Can Small Communities Make the Most of Housing Studies?

Center for Small Towns is beginning a series of projects on rural housing, in response to the great amount of interest and enthusiasm on the topic around western Minnesota recently. One topic of focus for this project was the nature of housing studies in rural Minnesota- how do they work and how useful are they for communities? In learning more about this, we found that many small communities have housing studies done for a variety of reasons, but they often have trouble implementing the recommendations suggested in the study. Read Full Article