CHICO HOUSING ACTION TEAM

​From Homelessness to Housing:
Making a Difference In Chico Since 2013

​Chico Housing Action Team's mission is to ensure that everyone in our community has access to housing they can afford.

What CHAT Does

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​Chico Housing Action Team's mission is to ensure that everyone in our community has access to housing they can afford. We have four major programs to help fulfill this mission:

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Housing Now program

Through our Housing Now program, we master-lease or own approximately 70 residences in multi-bedroom homes and apartment buildings. We sub-lease the rooms to individuals, and we lease entire homes to families in crisis, all at market-rate rents. This program includes our HUSH program for families in crisis that need a hand up, Redwood Housing for college students, a Veterans House for veterans, Mercy House for folks with serious chronic illness, and our Harmony House and Wildflower House residences for folks with mental illness.

Click here to learn more about Housing Now.

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CHAMP program

Our CHAMP program provides incentives to landlords to rent to Camp Fire survivors, who may not have the credit or income needed to rent from traditional landlords.

Click here to learn more about CHAMP.

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Food distribution program

We take in food donations from local businesses and food banks, sort them, bag them, and deliver them to most of our residences. This program is completely volunteer-run.

Click here to learn more about our food program.

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Furniture program

We take in donations of furniture, appliances, and housewares from local supporters and businesses at our warehouse, and we deliver them to residences as needed, and sometimes to other housing agencies in Butte County. This program is needed because many incoming residents to CHAT homes have little or no furniture or housewares of their own.

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LATEST NEWS

7/13/2022: Beautiful ground breaking ceremony for Everhart Village

7/21/2022: We were blessed with lovely weather and a small but wonderfully supportive crowd of key stakeholders at the recent ground breaking ceremony for Everhart Village on July 13, 2022 in Chico. Speakers included County Supervisor Debra Lucero, Cal Water regional outreach representative Shannon McGovern, Chico Chamber of Commerce marketing coordinator Megan Gladdis, Butte County Behavioral Health director Scott Kennelly, Butte County Housing Authority director Don Taylor, and CHAT Social Services Director Amber Benedict. We're excited and grateful to have finally reached this point after so many years of work. We're looking forward to being able to open the village to Butte County Behavioral Health clients by this fall.

CHAT VIDEOS

Stories about CHAT Residents and homelessness in Chico

The Seven Programs of CHAT

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We've been documenting our progress at providing truly affordable housing to low income and unhoused citizens in the past seven years, starting with our flagship program Housing Now, followed by Harmony House, HUSH, CHAMP, Redwood Housing, Veterans House, and Mercy House, plus the planned Everhart Village, and our two support programs, the donated-furniture warehouse program and our food distribution program for residents.This is what a few determined and extremely compassionate citizens can achieve when people fall through the cracks then get lifted up.

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CHAT'S HOUSING PROGRAMS