Alabama News Network reported on the damage in Hale County from severe weather last March. But The Post has found a reason financial aid from FEMA doesn't get to some people there who have owned their homes for decades, homes that are damaged or destroyed:
"Nationally, FEMA denies requests for help from about 2 percent of applicants for disaster aid because of title issues. In majority-Black counties, the rate is twice as high, according to a Washington Post analysis, in large part because Black people are twice as likely to pass down property informally. But in parts of the Deep South, FEMA has rejected up to a quarter of applicants because they can’t document ownership, according to the Post analysis. In Hale County, FEMA has denied 35 percent of disaster aid applicants for this reason since March."
Full Post story is HERE.
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