North Carolina tried to rebuild affordable housing after a hurricane. It took half a decade.

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North Carolina tried to rebuild affordable housing after a hurricane. It took half a decade.

As wildfires and hurricanes wreak havoc on American communities year after year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, has quietly become a central part of the federal government’s response to climate change. The agency has spent billions of dollars over the past decade on long-term recovery projects that supplement emergency aid provided by FEMA, which tends to pull back from disaster areas after a few months. States hav…