Between the Ryman Auditorium, the honky-tonks of Broadway, and the world-famous recording studios of Music Row, “Raising the Roof” in Nashville is a long-time tradition. On the Front Porch team’s most recent trip to Music City, U.S.A. we found our partner Affordable Housing Resources raising a different kind of roof and were delighted to see all four houses topped out and just beginning the installation of windows and doors. But for Rural Studio the idea of “raising the roof” carries yet another meaning. Providing more than just physical shelter, “raising the roof” embodies the idea that providing increased access to beautiful, well designed and affordable housing serves to expand opportunity to those in our community that need it most. Working to eliminating the structural and systemic barriers to homeownership, together with our partners the Front Porch Initiative is dedicated to “raising the roof” by providing equitable pathways to homeownership and the financial wellbeing and security that homeownership provides.