Rural Planning Grant

About this opportunity

Rural Housing Readiness Assessment Application Details The Rural Housing Readiness Assessment Grant program supports the use of publicly available, online information and rural community efforts to interpret publicly available hard data to implement changes through development codes, local ordinances, and housing incentives specific to individual community needs. In partnership with Iowa State University (ISU) Extension and Outreach’s Rural Housing Readiness Assessment workshops, funding from the program will empower communities to assess their current development environment and enact changes resulting in the creation of policies and procedures attractive to potential developers. The program, defined in Iowa Administrative Code, is administered by the Center for Rural Revitalization, a di...