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@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families.

But in some N.C. counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fema-aid-hurricane-helene-income-disparities?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene

An analysis by ProPublica and The Assembly of the more rural counties in North Carolina hardest hit by Helene shows that the households that got the most aid tended to have the highest incomes.
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