Nearly a year after deadly flooding hit eastern Kentucky, a housing crisis is affecting the impoverished region.
Shirley Howard sits in a temporary trailer with her dogs in Jackson, Ky, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Howard and dozens of others are living in the state-provided trailers because their homes were destroyed by a July flood that killed more than 40 people in eastern Kentucky. – Shirley Howard’s feet splashed into nearly a foot of water when she stepped out of bed on a summer morning last July amid a torrential rainfall.swallowing up Kentucky’s Appalachian region had reached her bedroom in the night.
“There’s food insecurity, there's lack of affordable housing, there's lack of access to resources ... and those things are just exacerbated after a disaster," said Sally Ray, director of domestic funds for the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, which helps guide private donations after disasters.Low-income families can't qualify for disaster loans,
“We had a housing crisis before the flood hit,” said Scott McReynolds, executive director of the Housing Development Alliance, a nonprofit that provides housing and repairs for needy residents in southeastern Kentucky. The group was working with 400 families even before the flood. FEMA has doled out about $106 million to victims of the Kentucky flood for repairs, cleanup, storage, moving costs and other short-term needs. The maximum FEMA payout is $39,700, but the average grant was closer to $20,000, McReynolds said.
In Jackson and surrounding communities in hard-hit Breathitt County, bare house foundations, eroded river and creek shorelines, and scattered debris are glaring signs of the destruction.
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