Debris that still remains from Hurricane Helene is coated in snow and ice as major winter storm moves over Asheville, North Carolina.

FEMA’s Transitional Sheltering Assistance program, which offers free hotel rooms, ends Jan. 10 unless FEMA grants an individual an extension.

Early impacts of Helene saw the region's home sales and new listings essentially halt, but in the past few months those patterns have changed. By most metrics, the analysis has shown the market to be resilient in the face of the region's worst natural disaster.

FEMA’s Transitional Sheltering Assistance program is providing hotel rooms to thousands of Western North Carolina survivors of Helene. However, on Jan. 3, FEMA began notifying families checked into either hotel or motel rooms,