ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the scholarship on housing and behavioral health in rural areas as well as the financial aid mechanisms and strategies taken by federal and state governments to facilitate stable housing and access to behavioral health care in rural communities. The most direct way housing overlaps with behavioral health is as the location where one receives treatment or mental health care. The housing as family theory views the house as the locus of private influences that are less controlled by government agencies or private health care providers. Behavioral health care is supported by the federal government through multiple administrations, mainly from within the Department of Health and Human Services. The scope of the federal investment in housing makes a catalogue of services difficult to complete. The prevalence of substance abuse and mental illness are comparable across rural and urban geographies.
