Hurricane Florence Creating Housing Shortage for Displaced North Carolinians
“Finding temporary housing for thousands of North Carolinians displaced by Hurricane Florence could prove more difficult than it was for those uprooted by other recent U.S. storms and hurricanes. That is because Florence’s path blew through some of the state’s smaller cities, where much of the rental housing stock is owned by mom-and-pop landlords. Places like Wilmington and Fayetteville have fewer than 1,500 empty apartment units each, according to apartment research firm RealPage Inc.”