Rural Resurrection

The Housing Supply Accelerator Playbook

May is Affordable Housing Month. Rural Resurrection continues to explore ways to help communities provide safe, decent, affordable housing. Last year, at this time, I reported on a new initiative that… Read more »

Affordable Housing Month 2025

The month of May is Affordable Housing Month. Rural Resurrection continues to look at ways to help communities to provide safe, decent, affordable housing. For the past few years, I… Read more »

University of Minnesota is Assisting Agritourism

Agritourism is a realm that I’ve talked quite a bit about in the past, but not as much over the past year. Still, it remains quite an option to draw… Read more »

Celebrate Trails Day

The fourth Saturday of April is quickly drawing more attention on people’s calendars. On this day each year is Celebrate Trails Day, an annual celebration of the nation’s trails. Started… Read more »

2025 Nebraska Planning Conference – The Aftermath

Though the weather made this year’s conference quite challenging, attendees of the 2025 Nebraska Planning Conference have left better trained to deal with the planning and zoning issues in their… Read more »

National Community Development Week 2025

Time to celebrate! It’s nearly National Community Development Week! Celebrated in April each year, this year’s festivities start, April 21st, and run through the week. Ok, you may not break… Read more »

APA NPC25 – Denver

Each year, my excitement for the upcoming APA National Planning Conference (NPC25) starts to build in January. That’s when registration opens, and I start planning for my time at the… Read more »

Cottonwood Falls, KS – “Coolest Place in the Midwest”

Destination Towns is a relatively new series on Rural Resurrection. These towns are unique and boldly different, towns that stick out in a crowd and draw people in rather than… Read more »

What About Tax Increment Financing?

I’ve been writing posts for Rural Resurrection for nearly seven years now. Through the posts I’ve tried to relay information on a variety of tools to assist communities. However, there’s… Read more »

2025 Nebraska Planning Conference

A regular subject on Rural Resurrection is the Nebraska Planning Conference. This is mainly due to the fact that I’ve been President of one of the organizations that put the… Read more »