Center for Community Resilience

How We Help

Our mission is to transition fire survivors from living in hotels or other precarious housing to more stable and suitable housing options. If you were affected by the 2020 Jackson County wildfires, the CCR may be able to assist you with:

• Identifying short- and long-term housing needs
• Developing individual housing stability plans
• Conducting housing searches
• Housing-related cash assistance
• Potential homebuyer counseling services
• Homeowner and tenant education & classes
• Manufactured home-specific support
• Referrals to partner agencies to provide ongoing support such as transportation, healthcare, financial, and disability services

The Center for Community Resilience is funded in part by a grant from the Oregon Department of Housing and Community Services.

HOMEOWNERSHIP SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE CCR:

•   The CCR provides homebuyer education classes to wildfire survivors free of charge. (These classes are optional to attend – NOT required for current funding assistance.)
• The CCR provides one-on-one housing counseling with fire survivors.
  • Topics include: Budgeting and saving, Credit, What to expect working with a Realtor or Lender, Reviewing resources received towards the loss of the previous home (insurance, FEMA, etc.), Housing options available or in development, Funding options, Learning what the survivors goal is for homeownership
• The CCR has bilingual housing counselors and support staff available so services can be provided in both English and Spanish.
• There is no income limit or citizenship requirement to receive homebuyer education or counseling.
• The CCR has WRRA funding to provide purchase assistance.
  • WRRA is “gap” funding designed to fill the remaining funding gap to help fire survivors purchase or rebuild. Income tiers apply for funding limits. No citizenship requirement. Assists fire survivors who owned a Manufactured Home or travel trailer with purchasing a Manufactured Home. Assists fire survivors who owned a site built home with rebuilding a site built home on the property where the home was lost. Assists with any required infrastructure costs.
• The CCR partners with Energy Trust of Oregon, Oregon Department of Energy, The Building Codes Division, and the OHCS Manufactured Home Replacement Program to help navigate and assist eligible fire survivors with applying for rebates or funding assistance.
• The CCR partners with manufactured home parks to inform fire survivors of available units during rebuilding.
• The CCR partners with developers to provide additional homeownership options for fire survivors.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

1. Fire survivors interested in homeownership will need to complete an intake packet and will be asked to provide additional documents for their counseling session.
2. Once the intake packet and documents have been received, a counseling appointment will be scheduled.
3. The counseling session can be in-person or virtual, whatever works best for the participant.
4. Once assigned a housing counselor, that counselor follow up with and continue to work with the participant until they achieve their goal of homeownership.