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  • North Carolina tried to rebuild affordable housing after a hurricane. It took half a decade.

    Jake Bittle

    April 03, 2024 |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s disaster recovery program provides federal funding to build affordable apartments in areas that have lost significant housing stock to disasters such as hurricanes. But due to the required congressional approval process and complex regulations, projects funded by the program often take so long to complete that people affected by the disaster are not able to benefit from the housing. In North Carolina, one such development opened to tenants more than five years after Hurricane Florence struck the area.

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  • How can California solve its water woes? By flooding its best farmland.

    Jake Bittle

    December 20, 2023 |

    Grist |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, California

    A conservation nonprofit’s restoration project in California’s Central Valley turned a farm field back into the flood plains that once existed there. Not only did it restore natural habitat, but the parcel is helping to combat flooding and drought by absorbing excess water that will eventually recharge the groundwater.

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