Millions set aside for home, business recovery [Video]

The Asheville City Council has set aside millions of dollars to create a grant program to help homes and businesses recover from damage caused by Hurricane Helene.City Council member Maggie Ullman said Wednesday the measure is the first step in recovering from Helene, and it comes nearly a month after the storm passed through the area.”People that care about us from near and far have already been contributing a lot of money so that we can get up and rolling, but for us and local government, anything that we could find so that we could do this immediately is of utmost importance,” Ullman said. Around $4 million for the grant program is coming from the city’s affordable housing capital improvement program, a housing authority project no longer under development and other grants, according to public documents.Officials said the money could be used to begin repairing homes and businesses, provide rental …