The Office of Recovery and Resiliency is accepting comments on the proposed creation of a program to help protect property owners against flood damage by paying to elevate residential structures at risk.
housing
Dare County homeless shelter reopens for 16th season
The shelter cannot remain open year-round because it occupies a rented space that is in use during summer.
Homeownership assistance program reopens to applicants
Around $2.2 million still is available to eligible first-time and first-generation homebuyers in the 16 federally designated storm-impacted eastern North Carolina counties.
Dare towns drop lawsuit over state housing
With Dare County mandated to return $35 million in housing funds to the state, its six towns have voluntarily dismissed the suit filed in October contesting conditions attached to the money.
Dare won’t use state budget provision on workforce housing
Dare County commissioners passed a resolution Monday stating the county will not use a controversial and contentious provision that was inserted into the state budget to try and build affordable housing projects.
Dare towns challenge affordable housing budget provision
The housing measure, for which no one has yet acknowledged responsibility, restricts the towns’ ability to regulate affordable housing projects funded by $35 million in state money awarded to the county for that purpose.
Public housing funds awarded to hurricane-impacted areas
Wilmington Housing Authority has been awarded $2.03 million to repair or replace damaged rental units or build new ones in safer locations with a lower risk of flooding.
State commits to 1,000 housing units in hurricane-hit areas
The state has committed to fund more than 1,000 new affordable housing units in areas hit by hurricanes Matthew and Florence, including southeastern coastal counties.
Survey Seeks Input On Employee Housing
Dare County and UNC-Chapel Hill have partnered on a survey for local business owners and employers to identify employees’ housing needs.
Dare OKs Zoning for ‘Essential Housing’
Dare County Board of Commissioners approved four zoning amendments as part of a continuing effort to generate what is now called “essential housing” to increase more affordable options in the county.
Dare Looks at Zoning to Increase Housing
Dare County commissioners are holding Sept. 16 in Manteo a public hearing on proposed zoning amendments to address year-round affordable housing issues.
FEMA Adds Counties for Temporary Housing
Pamlico is one of three newly added counties where the Federal Emergency Management Agency is offering temporary housing units to households displaced by Hurricane Florence.
