A new report highlights the challenges rural communities face in attracting affordable housing, although many of them across the country have high poverty rates, low vacancy rates and high unemployment rates as do urban centers.
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Californians have highest poverty rate
Despite California’s booming economy – among the largest in the world, surpassing most nation’s output – the majority of its residents are barely getting by, according to a new study.
California’s housing package falls short in addressing building lag
California’s housing crisis should have, by this time, eased some after Gov. Jerry Brown last year signed more than a dozen bills that would encourage more building. But some analysts now say that the laws have yet to have a measurable impact on the state’s progress.
Arizona Tribe threatened by heavy rains and rising water
The Menagers Dam near the Tohono O’odham Nation in southern Arizona was put to the test of holding back waters as Tropical Storm Rosa pummeled the area. The Tohono O’odham Nation has declared a state of emergency.
Better plumbing helps conserve water in populated and drought-prone American West
Although population in the rural and urban American West is increasing, water use has declined because better-designed toilets are conserving water more effectively.