The conference agreement would make a number of modifications to rural housing programs. focusing resources on families most in need. Housing for farm workers would be expanded to address the increasing problem of housing for seasonal farm workers and homeless people in rural areas. Rural housing assistance will be set aside each year for 100 counties that have some of the worst housing conditions in the country but have not received a fair share of Federal assistance. Farmers Home would begin to address the housing needs of tens of thousands of Mexican immigrants now living in squalid conditions near the Mexican border in California. Arizona. New Mexico. and Texas.
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