Editor’s note: This article, distributed by The Associated Press, was originally published on The Conversation website. The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and ...

More than 500 homeowners who lost their homes during Helene are signed up for the 75% federally funded and 25% state funded property buyback program called the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP).

After 40 years in their Li Fair Estates home in southwest Pensacola, Steven Smothers and his wife are selling their house to Escambia County over flooding issues. Water has flooded their sunken living ...

No applications for homeowner buyouts and disaster mitigation funding through the Federal Emergency Management Agency have been approved since Tropical Storm Helene hit Western North Carolina a year ...

State officials say applications to FEMA for more than $200 million in aid for homeowners have sat unapproved for months.

(THE CONVERSATION) Dangerous flooding has damaged neighborhoods in almost every state in 2025, leaving homes a muddy mess. In several hard-hit areas, it wasn’t the first time homeowners found ...

Mobile homes line the riverbank in Swannanoa, North Carolina on Oct. 7, 2025. (Photo: Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline) The farmer’s market kicked off earlier this year, a new effort from a local nonprofit ...

Josh Stein said Oct. 13. The Hazard Mitigation Grant Program is a FEMA-funded program that allows property owners to apply for federal buyouts after disasters. It is designed to reduce or eliminate ...