The USDA Rural Development announced a $331 million investment to improve critical infrastructure in rural Iowa last month. Iowa USDA Rural Development Director Theresa Greenfield says the investment comes as part of a more considerable $5.2 billion investment by the USDA into 46 states and Puerto Rico.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Missouri State Director Kyle Wilkens announced that USDA is investing $288,302,000 to build and improve critical rural infrastructure in Missouri. USDA is making the awards under the Water and Waste Disposal Loan and Grant Program, which provides financing for drinking water, stormwater drainage, and waste disposal systems in rural communities, and the Electric Loan Program, which provides funding to construct, improve, and expand electric distribution, transmission, and generation.

U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that the Department is increasing the maximum loan amount to $400,000 under the Intermediary Relending Program. This change is in accordance with provisions in the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill). USDA is offering priority points to projects that advance key priorities under the Biden-Harris Administration to help communities recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, advance equity and combat climate change.

Despite $100 million in recent investments, many of the state's 400,000 to 800,000 farmworkers live in cramped, unsafe conditions. But while farmworker housing advocates and developers have welcomed the money, they say much more is needed given the overwhelming scale of the problem and the fact that farmworkers are essential to the productivity of California's lucrative agricultural sector.

To ensure newcomers settling in small towns and rural communities have access to essential services during their first year in Canada, the Honourable Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, announced an investment of more than $35 million to expand resettlement capacity and settlement services across Canada.

LISC Detroit and Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced a $10 million investment from KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment toward the creation and preservation of affordable housing in the city through the Detroit Housing for the Future Fund. The DHFF, which was announced by Mayor Duggan in 2020, represents the largest single private commitment to affordable housing in Detroit's history. The DHFF is a private investment fund managed by LISC that is committed to investing private capital into affordable housing projects in need of gap financing to move the developments forward.

The Infrastructure Act includes $21 billion in funding to address Legacy Pollution and can be used to clean up brownfield and superfund sites, as well as reclaim abandoned mine lands and plug orphan oil and gas wells. Pennsylvania has more unreclaimed abandoned mine land acreage than any other state in the country and represents nearly 41 percent of the country's reclamation costs. The Infrastructure Act will provide nearly $3.8 billion to Pennsylvania for reclamation efforts.

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