(Radio Iowa) – State officials estimate two-thousand homes were damaged or destroyed during recent flooding in northwest Iowa. After previous flooding in Cherokee, FEMA bought out 40 properties.
Another 70 homes in Cherokee were destroyed in this year’s flooding and Cherokee Mayor Craig Schmidt doesn’t know where people will go because all the other nearby towns have the same problem — no workers and no housing.
Governor Reynolds says the state needs to figure out how to combine state and local resources and get new homes built as quickly as possible. The governor says she and her staff are trying to come up with some type of transitional housing plan as well as incentives for developers that build homes and apartments.
