Rural Nebraska village aims to survive, grow with new housing efforts

By: Cindy Gonzalez

Outlets: Nebraska Examiner

Published: May 2, 2026

Words: 952

Last Updated: 2 months, 4 weeks ago

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LINCOLN — The south-central Nebraska town of Bertrand hadn’t seen a newly built house or apartment for 16 years until a fiveplex rose on an old mobile home park in 2024.

Among the first to live in the $1.1 million rental property was a school teacher, a young manufacturing worker and a retired man whose move there opened up a for-sale dwelling in the rural community of about 750.

Such movement sparked by new …

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