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Their family home is flood-prone. Flood insurance is too expensive.
JACKSON — Last time she checked, flood insurance would cost Carolyn Combs and husband Lou about $1,100 per month. That was before the 2021 and 2022 floods swept through her family’s home in Jackson, destroying everything inside. “I couldn’t imagine what it is now,” Combs told the Kentucky Lantern in mid-December. “But I already work […] The post Their family home is flood-prone. Flood insurance is too expensive. appeared first on Kentucky Lantern.
HDA provides housing update for flood victims
Scott McReynolds, executive director of The Housing Development Alliance (HDA), spoke during the Nov. 15 Perry County Fiscal Court meeting, discussing the work the HDA has been doing since the July flooding. McReynolds said one of the issues being faced throughout this process of locating families and individuals in need...
HDA building homes for flood survivors, raises walls on first of four homes in Perry County
The first of four new homes for Perry County flood survivors started taking shape on Tuesday, Oct. 18. The organization began constructing a home which is the first in a series of 12 homes to be built for flood survivors in hard-hit Breathitt, Knott and Perry counties. The Housing Development...
Community continues to face housing crisis after families displaced due to flooding
Following the flooding and storms that occurred in July, several families and individuals experienced damage to their houses and property, and hundreds of individuals completely lost their homes. In Hazard and Perry County, local leaders, community partners and volunteers are continuing to work on the housing crisis, searching for ways to get families and individuals back into houses before winter.
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