After Hurricanes Matthew and Florence, Roy Cooper took $100 million in disaster relief away from storm victims who were still homeless. The relief went to a housing project that was open to anybody and not exclusive to storm victims. Cooper is refusing to explain why he took the critical relief away while thousands of families were still homeless.
“Time and again, Roy Cooper abandoned North Carolinians devastated by Hurricanes Matthew and Florence. Whether it’s fighting to protect criminal illegals, releasing violent criminals from prison early, or siphoning critical aid away from storm victims, Cooper always puts North Carolinians last,” said NRSC Regional Press Secretary Nick Puglia.
Cooper failed North Carolinians in the aftermath of Florence and Matthew.
- Cooper left office with at least 1,100 families in Eastern North Carolina still waiting for relief.
- Cooper grossly inflated the amount of homes his administration rebuilt in the aftermath. “Cooper said he “helped repair or rebuild more than 14,000 homes,” but he only helped rebuild 3,522 homes.
- Under Cooper, only 1% of the $236 million in federal funds was spent years after Hurricane Matthew.
- Years after Hurricane Matthew, thousands of North Carolinians were still “stranded in motels or with relatives, in dilapidated houses or in travel trailers.”
Read more from the New York Post here or below.
Roy Cooper steered $100M in NC disaster relief to low-income housing as hurricane victims went without homes
Ryan King
New York Post
October 2, 2026
In the aftermath of two devastating hurricanes, then-Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration steered some $100 million in disaster funding toward affordable housing projects — despite hundreds of storm victims stuck in temporary homes, according to an analysis.
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Critically, those affordable housing projects do not require applicants to be hurricane victims.
Cooper’s team refused to comment[.]
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Years after those two storms ripped through North Carolina, a report by WHQR found that over a thousand families were still left without rebuilt or repaired homes.
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Cooper, who is running for a competitive Senate seat against Republican Michael Whatley, previously faced controversy after a state audit found that reconstruction of more than 1,100 homes was unfinished by the time he left office.
It also found that 3,522 homes were rebuilt.
The former governor has said he “helped repair or rebuild more than 14,000 homes[.]”
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During his tenure, the Tar Heel State took an average of 138 days to make a decision on whether someone was eligible for reconstruction funds, according to the audit. On average, it took four years after being deemed eligible for construction to begin..
The Post repeatedly reached out to Cooper’s campaign for comment.
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