A look at North Carolina’s HOP program, one year after its end

HOP was an experimental program that used Medicaid money to help people with food, transportation, housing, and mental health. WHQR set out to see how HOP participants and non-profit partners have fared since.

Cynthia Brock is a single parent of five living on disability in Wilmington. When she asked management to handle a pest issue at her last rental home, she declined using a spray pesticide because one of her sons was sick with breathing issues. Then, management told her to vacate.

Brock said the cost of getting a new place in Wilmington’s housing market was too much to handle on her own…

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