6/26/2025
In the evolving landscape of health access, rural communities present persistent and unique challenges. While poverty exists everywhere, urban poverty is often clustered in concentrated areas, making it easier to identify and, potentially, to address. In contrast, rural poverty tends to be more diffuse and, in some ways, less visible. You may not see many unhoused individuals on the streets of rural towns, but that doesn’t mean homelessness isn’t present. It often manifests as couch surfing, inadequate housing or transient living situations — conditions that are harder to quantify and support. READ MORE.