ShareAmerica's history is a testament to the unique joys of living in small communities like the neighborly connection and sense of community often missing in larger metropolitan areas. Across the country, community leaders are joining together to bring new life back to small towns. They are doing it by focusing on smart growth that highlights the existing assets of a community — its history, culture and landscape — or by creating a new source of vitality, such as by encouraging artists to flourish or by undertaking creative placemaking.
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Woodbine, Iowa, was like a lot of small towns. It was small and getting smaller. The population fell by 150 people between 2000 and 2010 ...
REALTOR® Rick Stallard wins a $15,000 NAR grant to revitalize his hometown.
It’s been nearly two decades since the federal government gave tribes the right to determine and deal with their own housing needs.
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When Elisa Korenne moved from New York City to New York Mills, Minn., population 1,195, for an artists’ residency program, she wanted ...
When you think of Michigan, it’s natural that you think of automobiles. “We’re the auto-centric capital of the ...
From the Arkansas Delta to the wine country of southeastern Washington State and beyond, rural regions around the country are conserving, ...
A decade has passed since the federal government earmarked funds for a bridge in Grand Traverse County, Mich. Although it will never carry ...
Since the financial downturn, stories of cities in distress have littered the news. That’s why the smart growth of a small town like ...
Small cities and towns are forever being buffeted by the winds of fate. When they are the collection and distribution centers for rural ...
Although far from the high-priced big cities, rural communities and small towns have their own challenges in providing affordable housing ...
Imagine a self-sustaining passenger rail system. In Maine, commercial REALTORS® are working to make one such transit opportunity a ...
