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In a three-part series, Kentucky Public Radio explored the state's ambitious plan to create seven new housing developments. Most are on former strip mines. For it to work, they'll have to surmount some complex challenges.
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As climate change increases the risk of flooding in eastern Kentucky, the state is building high ground communities to help residents, but one small mountain town has their own vision for high ground homes.
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The state is planning to create seven new neighborhoods, most on top of old mining sites in eastern Kentucky. But can they make the homes affordable and attractive enough to draw locals in to settle them?
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When floods hit eastern Kentucky in 2022, hundreds of families lost their homes. Flush with federal aid, the state is responding by becoming a housing developer on former strip mines.
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One family is getting thousands of dollars in additional disaster aid from FEMA following a Kentucky Public Radio story that showed how the agency failed to notify disaster victims about a deadline to appeal aid decisions.
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Local governments use federal funds to buy hundreds of homes damaged during last year’s deadly floods.
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Reporters for the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting and Louisville Public Media spent months digging into the dirty business of disaster cleanup.
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Beshear said the Team Eastern Kentucky Flood Relief Fund has raised over $13 million from more than 41,500 donors.
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In a press release earlier this week, state and federal emergency management agencies said the eastern Kentucky flood recovery was “on course.” But a year after the disaster, many are still waiting for aid.
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Kentucky’s Office of the Auditor of Public Accounts announced Thursday it will conduct a “special examination” of the Public Protection Cabinet’s oversight of the Team Western Kentucky Tornado Relief and Team Eastern Kentucky Flood Relief Funds.