Tackling the chronic shortage of homes across our seven-state service area.

Housing

Hardworking families, small business owners, and family farmers are the backbone of our rural communities.

They deserve the opportunity and tools to build a good life.

Rural residents are being held back by a shortage of decent, affordable homes near their work and schools like their urban counterparts. Many are forced to spend more than half their income on housing, leaving less for essentials like food, childcare, and transportation.

In the places we serve, over 20% of residents have been living in poverty for more than 30 years. Aging infrastructure and decades of disinvestment make attracting homebuilders to repair and build quality homes even harder. Removing these barriers is crucial to providing long-term pathways to opportunity and mobility.

 Our Solution:More Homes in Every Community.

Volumetric modular homes are one of many innovative solutions that can be adopted at the state level for widespread, positive impact. These off-site constructed homes, assembled on-site, ease the burdens on local municipalities and inspection agencies, especially in rural communities.

Why volumetric modular housing?

  • Cut construction time by 50%, costs by 20% and ease the burdens on local municipalities
  • Classify as real property, qualify for traditional mortgages, appreciate over time
  • Contribute to individual and community wealth-building
  • Increased production and cost-saving efficiencies
  • Innovative solution that is suited for both rural and urban environments

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What is COME HOME?

COME HOME aims to provide opportunities and tools to build a good life for hardworking families, small business owners, and family farmers while driving and sustaining our rural economies and communities.

COME HOME has four key components:

Housing Needs Assessment

Strategic Housing Planning

Resource Portfolio Development

Innovative Lending

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Partners

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Housing Education

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Your Money, Your Goals: A Financial Empowerment Toolkit

*Communities Unlimited, Inc. is not affiliated with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

US Department of Housing and Urban Development

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Fannie Mae

Free Homebuyer Education Course

*Communities Unlimited, Inc. is not affiliated with Fannie Mae

Arkansas Delta

Do you live in the Arkansas Delta?  Would you like to own your own home but not sure where to start? Use the form to speak to our housing counselor and begin your journey to home ownership.

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Meet The Team

Area Director of Rural Housing

Audra Butler
Kapriskie Mack
Community Housing Technician

Kapriskie Mack

Area Director of Rural Housing

Audra Butler

Audra Butler started Communities Unlimited (CU) in 2022 as the Rural Housing Area Director. Audra has more than a decade in subsidized and affordable housing leadership and homeless advocacy. Over the last 10 years, Audra has worked with nonprofits and organizations focused on creating pathways out of poverty. As the Rural Housing Area Director for Communities Unlimited, Audra develops a rural housing strategy and offers a modular housing manufacturing program. Audra works in communities to help community members better understand housing and what their community needs.

Audra formerly served as the Interim Director and Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Fayetteville Housing Authority. While there, Audra led the organization through leadership transitions and organizational restructuring, stabilizing operations and allowing the team of housing professionals to continue providing services to thousands of Arkansans in Northwest Arkansas. Audra also served as the Chief Operations Officer for Community Programs at ARVAC, a community action agency in central Arkansas, directing operations in 9 counties and expanding the organizations homeless services and transitional living program.

Audra lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas and works out of Communities Unlimited’s Fayetteville office.

 

 

 

 

 

Phone:479.684.7727

Kapriskie Mack

Community Housing Technician

Kapriskie Mack

Kapriskie Mack joined Communities Unlimited (CU) in September 2023 as a Community Housing Technician. Kapriskie leads client scheduling and delivery of housing services, provides technical assistance and strategic planning, facilitates grants, and markets housing products to rural and poverty-stricken communities. 

Before starting at CU, Kapriskie was a Project Manager for Carnegie Learning. She has a Master of Divinity from Memphis Theological Seminary and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Memphis.  

Phone:479.422.9651

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