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This is the article which alerted me to this program.I cannot post this due to copyright reasons but this is an amazing offer from Ellsworth County Kansas, if true. http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060721/COLUMNISTS02/607210358/1120/NEWS A place where you can get help financing a new house through government-sponsored programs, plus get help in coming up with a down payment. Sounds like a fantasy, doesn't it? Not only can you get free land and help financing in Ellsworth County, the incentive package to move into town and set up your life comes with little gifties like waivers of building permit fees, sewer tap fees, one month...

ATWOOD, Kan. - A hundred and forty years after the Homestead Act helped populate the American West, small towns in Kansas are turning to it again, to draw new residents and new economic development. Three hours east of Denver, Atwood, Kansas is losing ground. Census figures from 2000 showed 1,279 people living there, about a hundred fewer than in 1994. So, back in November, city leaders decided to offer home-sized lots for free to anyone willing to build. "I'm getting interest from every state of the union and Mexico," said Arlene Bliss, director of economic development for Rawlins County, KS....