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SITE FINDINGS

Focus Group Results and Analyses:

Focus groups were conducted at five Community Action Agencies located in -- Jacksonville,
New Bern, Fayetteville, Lumberton and Goldsboro. These focus groups consisted of
approximately 77 local community leaders across various domains (housing providers, local
elected officials, community based organizations, and citizens). In addition to the focus
groups, surveys were administered to low-income citizens who were impacted by Hurricane
Florence. Both methods of data gathering informed a general set of responses for
statistical analyses and insight from citizens. perspectives of both community
providers and impacted was important to the analyses. This forms a triangulation of data and
allows us to glean insights that may be generalizable to other locations.

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