Report: Housing Deregulation in NC Likely Made Devastation From Helene Worse
State Republican lawmakers’ years-long efforts to deregulate housing in North Carolina likely played a major role in the scale of Hurricane Helene’s destruction, a new report highlights. At least 227 people have died as a result of the storm, with an unknown number still missing or unaccounted for. The storm is the deadliest to hit the country since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.