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FEMA outlines housing options for Haywood County: $47M in assistance, 209 Haywood households still in transitional sheltering
Summary
At the Dec. 2 meeting, FEMA told Haywood County commissioners it has provided roughly $47 million in displacement assistance across Western North Carolina, that about 209 Haywood households remain in transitional sheltering assistance, and that FEMA is deploying transportable temporary housing units and rental assistance while inspections continue.
FEMA officials briefed Haywood County commissioners on Dec. 2 about the agency’s direct-housing and rental-assistance efforts following Tropical Storm Helene and described options available to survivors while they work toward permanent housing.
Marty Baumbach, FEMA’s Direct Housing Program representative, told the board the agency has provided ‘‘about $47,000,000 for displacement assistance in Western North Carolina’’ and had placed households into hotels and motel vouchers under transitional sheltering. He said roughly 4,800 households regionally remained in hotel or motel assistance at a recent count and that Haywood County had about 209 households still enrolled in transitional sheltering assistance.…
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