CHICO HOUSING ACTION TEAM

What CHAT Does:

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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. We also provide property maintenance, volunteers who provide emotional and life-skills support, and housing support coordinators who connect residents with services and local resources.

This program includes residences for students in our Redwood Housing, veterans in our Veterans House, folks with serious chronic illness in our Mercy House, and folks with mental illness in our Wildflower House.

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CHAMP program: For Camp Fire survivors, our CHAMP program provides landlord incentives to rent to fire survivors who may not have the credit or income to rent from traditional landlords.

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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.

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Click here to learn more about our food program

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Furniture warehouse 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. Many incoming residents to CHAT homes have little or no furniture or housewares and may need us to furnish the entire residence.

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We help create the stability that people need to make progress in their lives!

March 2022: Work continues on
Everhart Village

March 2022: Work continues on the sleeping cabins for Everhart Village, a planned emergency-shelter project in Chico in collaboration with Butte County's Dept of Behavioral Health (BCBH). We're upgrading the cabins to have electrical, insulation, plumbing, and fresh coats of paint in cheerful colors, while we're also working on getting approvals and permits for the construction of the road and utilities at the site.

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Jan 2022: New Executive Director
Nicole Drummond

We are excited to announce that Chico Housing Action Team has hired a new Executive Director, Nicole Drummond. Up until now, Leslie Johnson has heroically served in the Executive Director role as a volunteer. Nicole’s hiring means Leslie can continue her amazing work in the role of Assistant Director and Board President.

Nicole has been helping vulnerable populations for more than 20 years. For over 15 years she was a director of a local early intervention agency. Parent Infant Programs is a vendor of Far Northern Regional Center that supports families who have a child either at risk or diagnosed with a developmental delay or disability.

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The Seven Progams of CHAT

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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