As a winter storm approaches Western North Carolina, most of the 5,700 households in FEMA hotel voucher housing have been deemed ineligible.

FEMA’s Transitional Sheltering Assistance program, which offers free hotel rooms, ends Jan. 10 unless FEMA grants an individual an extension.

FEMA has extended the deadline to Jan. 28, 2025, for SC residents filing damage claims from Hurricane Helene damage. Helene struck the state in late September.

Jan. 8, people gathered at Pack Square in downtown Asheville to demand FEMA to extend temporary housing assistance for victims of Helene.

People gathered at Pack Square in downtown Asheville on Wednesday to demand Federal Emergency Management Agency to extend temporary housing assistance for victi

FEMA’s Transitional Sheltering Assistance program is providing hotel rooms to thousands of Western North Carolina survivors of Helene. However, on Jan. 3, FEMA began notifying families checked into either hotel or motel rooms,