While the Biden administration has been sending millions of dollars overseas, the residents of western North Carolina who were impacted by Hurricane Helene have been living in tents and freezing. The Asheville Citizen-Times has stated that the rumors that people were not allowed to occupy the tiny  homes built by the Amish are unsubstantiated.

On December 16th, The Asheville Citizen-Times reported:

As temporary housing units from the Federal Emergency Management Agency remain slow to arrive in Western North Carolina following Tropical Storm Helene, a Dec. 10 emergency rule adopted by the North Carolina Building Code Council hopes to offset those delays by expediting the construction process for people, nonprofits and other recovery organizations helping to provide shelter.

Developed by the N.C. Office of State Fire Marshal, the new rule establishes minimum construction requirements for temporary housing, allowing property owners to forgo the permitting and inspection process. Instead, property owners will sign an affidavit acknowledging compliance with the minimum requirements, like foundation stability, releasing state and local government of liability.

“As the Winter deepens and temperatures drop – and as FEMA lags behind its prior projection for installation of temporary housing units – many North Carolinians in the counties devastated by Hurricane Helene are without safe and warm shelter,” State Fire Marshal Brian Taylor said in a Dec. 10 statement. 

The article concludes:

Over 1,500 remain in hotels after Helene as Buncombe Co. mulls FEMA housing ‘group site’

It’s cold in western North Carolina right now. We need to find shelter for everyone quickly.