FEMA Faces Scrutiny As North Carolina’s Homeless Struggle in The Cold

In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, western North Carolina’s recovery has been marred by FEMA’s failure to deliver promised housing to the thousands of residents left homeless. Despite having housing units available, FEMA has failed to provide a timeline for their release, leaving families vulnerable as winter looms.

Marn’i Washington, a former FEMA disaster assistance crew leader, has come forward to expose the agency’s internal problems. She shared on “Roland Martin Unfiltered” that FEMA staff were instructed to avoid homes with Trump signs, a troubling sign of internal bias and inefficiency. Washington emphasized that this was not an isolated incident but part of a larger issue of neglect within FEMA. “If you asked the people in the field, they would tell you the truth,” she said, accusing senior leadership of misleading the public about the scale of the problem.

Washington’s claims paint a picture of an agency that is more concerned with internal politics than with helping those in need. While FEMA releases videos claiming to be doing its best, the reality is starkly different for those in North Carolina still waiting for help. Housing units that could provide shelter are sitting unused, while displaced families are forced to endure another winter without a home.

As the delay continues, questions about FEMA’s efficiency and priorities remain unanswered. The lack of action recalls the slow response seen during Hurricane Katrina, but unlike the myths surrounding New Orleans, the situation in North Carolina offers tangible evidence of FEMA’s failure to act. People are waiting, cold and desperate, and the agency seems to be doing nothing about it.

With no timeline in sight for the release of housing units, the public’s trust in FEMA is rapidly eroding. North Carolina residents who are still without homes are left wondering why their government is failing them once again, with nothing more than empty promises and bureaucratic delays.

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