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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. The perspectives of both community providers and
impacted were 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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