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Update: As of November 2023, the NC Homeowner Assistance fund is no longer accepting new applications. In total, the program served 18,000 homeowners.

When Tommy Cloyd bought his house in 2009 outside Greenville, it needed a lot of work. For three months, his family helped fix and paint everything from the ceiling to the doors. That memory became especially precious after his father passed away in 2022.

As COVID-19 cases mounted in the first winter of the pandemic, so too did utility bills and rent notices, threatening one of the few stable things in many people’s lives at that time – their home. Greg Jacobs saw the impact firsthand within the Coharie tribe, both as a member and as the Tribal Administrator for the Coharie Intra-Tribal Council headquartered in Clinton.