NC Mountain Housing Woes Headed For Crisis, Months After Helene
“Tropical Storm Helene left Western North Carolina with 100,000 homes severely damaged or destroyed, a skyrocketing unemployment rate and evictions on the rise. Now, the region’s extremely tight housing marketis quickly bubbling over into a fully fledged crisis.
Two primary housing-related concerns are driving the problem in the mountains post-Helene: increased homelessness and substantial population loss.
Emergency shelters are closing. Much-needed relief money is stuck in the folds of state and federal bureaucracy. Many affordable housing units were destroyed. Some houses are just now becoming unlivable due to harmful mold growth. Western North Carolinians are increasingly anxious about where they can afford to live.”
Read more at Carolina Public Press.