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Throughout Appalachia, as across the nation, we're experiencing a housing crisis.

“I think the real crisis that we’re facing in West Virginia, and Appalachia as a whole, is the lack of housing stock in general,” said Paige Looney, a housing-policy specialist with the.

Emergency funding was made available in the pandemic through the congressionally approved, but while that funding was “unprecedented and huge and very, very necessary,” Looney said, it’s essentially functioned as a “band aid.”