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Housing Readiness Fact Sheet: Childcare

This Rural Housing Readiness Assessment fact sheet has suggestions for dealing with the shortage of childcare facilities and providers, links to useful resources, and an example of a childcare success story from Hamilton County, Iowa.

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Housing Readiness Fact Sheet: Downtown Revitalization

This Rural Housing Readiness Assessment fact sheet outlines different strategies and resources for downtown revitalization, including the Main Street Iowa Program, the Community Visioning Program, and Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) opportunities.

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Housing Readiness Fact Sheet: Incentives for Developers/Builders

Housing is developed where and when it is profitable. This fact sheet outlines incentives that city governments can implement to prepare them for rural development, along with financial incentives to entice developers and builders to rural communities.

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Housing Readiness Fact Sheet: Incentives for Home Buyers

Offering incentives aimed at home buyers is an effective way to encourage new constructions and reduce the risks of unsold properties or value gaps that make new housing unaffordable. This fact sheets provides information on homeownership programs, down-payment assistance programs, and other opportunities, and presents examples of assistance programs created by Iowa communities.

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Housing Readiness Fact Sheet: Marketing and Communication

Marketing and communication are crucial to the success of a community’s housing-development strategy. This fact sheet offers strategies for marketing to both home builders and the public and provides useful links to feature on a city’s website.

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Housing Readiness Fact Sheet: New Construction: Rental Housing

Homeownership is not an option for all demographic groups; therefore, rural communities need to diversify their housing options to accommodate residents’ range of income. This fact sheet provides information about both federal and state resources designed to address multifamily and low-income housing.

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Housing Readiness Fact Sheet: Nuisance Abatement

This fact sheet describes nuisance abatement and offers tips and tricks for how communities can deal with nuisance properties. Links are provided to relevant chapters of the Iowa Code, as well as programs and information from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, the Iowa Economic Development Authority, and the Iowa League of Cities.

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Housing Readiness Fact Sheet: Housing Rehabilitation

This fact sheet describes how rehabilitating existing housing can contribute to improving a community’s housing situation, presents strategic considerations, and lists funding sources at the federal, state, and regional levels for housing rehabilitation.

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Housing Readiness Fact Sheet: Housing for Older Adults

Because nearly one-third of Iowans are 55 years old or older, developing housing for this demographic is a smart investment for communities. This fact sheet describes opportunities and challenges related to housing development for older adults, identifies several funding sources available, and present examples of older-adult housing developments in three Iowa communities.

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Iowa Retail Initiative

The Iowa Retail Initiative, a part of ISU Extension and Outreach, is a program designed to strengthen independent retail in Iowa communities.

Our two-part program:

IRI Champions workshop provides training and resources for the community and small business supporters on topics from social media and retail district amenities to understanding your town’s retail data analysis.
The IRI Snapshot trains local leaders to create a snapshot of their retail district and to assess information about their retail districts, mapping, and decision-making.

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Iowa Retail Initiative Fact Sheet: Social Media Guide for Retailers

This fact sheet provides basic information for retailers who want to engage and grow their customer base through social media. Included are tips for creating social media posts, building relationships, branding and marketing, and building audience.

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Leading Communities: A Place-based Leadership Program

Leading Communities guides you toward:

Understanding your community
Identifying local issues
Making community decisions
Building social collaboration
Working together effectively
Making it happen!

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Preparing for a Collaborative Community Assessment

This publication helps community development specialists prepare for collaborative community assessment activities. It discusses characteristics of such an assessment, steps involved, and practical implications.

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