The City of Asheville announced that it would be donating $100,000 to the One Buncombe Fund. | City of Asheville, North Carolina
The City of Asheville announced that it would be donating $100,000 to the One Buncombe Fund. | City of Asheville, North Carolina
The city of Asheville announced that it will be donating $100,000 to the One Buncombe Fund, which was formed last month to support locals who were struggling to make ends meet because of COVID-19.
WLOS reports the money is not directly transferred to the applicant. Instead, the fund makes arrangements with landlords or utility companies to cover an individual’s bills. As of Tuesday, more than $18,000 have been approved and dispersed to 277 individuals.
Thousands of residents and business applied to the fund after scrambling to pay bills merely weeks after COVID-19 limited businesses, or completely shut them down. According to One Buncombe Board Chair Kit Cramer, the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak has had devastating effects on businesses and employees in the area.
“The first wave was restaurants and bar workers," Cramer told WLOS. "Hotels, retail businesses were impacted. Manufacturing has been impacted. There have been all types of businesses impacted through this process.
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