Watauga County was selected as one of 10 western North Carolina counties to receive a portion of more than $69 million in federal disaster recovery funding for affordable rental housing. Gov. Josh Stein announced the awards this week through the state's Rental Production Program for Disaster.
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Sixty-nine million dollars is moving into western North Carolina for rental housing, and Watauga County is one of ten counties getting a cut. The money comes through the state's Rental Production Program for Disaster Recovery, which means it is tied to Helene rebuilding, not to some separate affordable-housing initiative that happened to arrive now. This matters because rental housing is what disappeared fastest after the storm, and what people without savings cannot replace on their own. Watauga got named this week.
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