TYPOGRAPHY

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.

Kristen and daughter at Caper Acres in Chico

CHAT resident Kristen and her young daughter enjoying a Chico park

NEWS AND CURRENT EVENTS
FEBRUARY 2023

Our office hours have changed! We're now open Monday-Friday, 9 am to 12 noon and 1 pm to 4 pm. We are gratefully accepting linens and silverware (see below) during our open office hours.

We would love your gently-used furniture and housewares, especially small dressers, small sofas (not sleepers), bed linens (full/twin), mattresses (full/twin), bedframes (full/twin), and silverware. Linens donations can be dropped off at our office at 22 Williamsburg Lane in Chico, but please CALL FIRST (530-399-3965) to confirm someone will be there to accept your items. For all other items, please email furniture@chicohousingactionteam.net with a picture and description of the item.

Save the date for Pancakes with CHAT on Easter Sunday! We'll host the 2nd annual Pancakes with CHAT event on April 9th at the CARD Center, when their glorious rose garden will be in bloom. More details at our event listing!

We no longer take direct applications for housing. If you or someone you know are homeless and in need of housing, we recommend you call 211 and ask to be entered into their Coordinated Entry System and assessed for a "vulnerability index" score. The Coordinated Entry System is a county-wide database that we and other nonprofits in the county draw on when we have vacancies.

OUR five major programs to help fulfill our mission

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:

the HUSH program for families in crisis that need a hand up;
Redwood Housing for college students;
Veterans Houses for veterans;
Mercy House for folks with serious chronic illness,
Harmony House and Wildflower House for folks with mental illness.

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. We've helped over a hundred Camp Fire survivor households get into housing they can afford.

Food distribution program

Every Saturday, our food program crew takes in food donations from local businesses and food banks, then sorts, bags, and delivers items to CHAT residences. This program is completely volunteer-run.

Furniture program

Our furniture warehouse program takes 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.

EVERHART VILLAGE - opening SPRING 2023

Everhart Village is a planned emergency-shelter project that is being developed in collaboration with Butte County Dept. of Behavioral Health. The project will consist of 20 sleeping cabins outiftted with electricity, plumbing, and insulation, on county property located within the city limits of Chico, near several essential service agencies. Residents will be clients of Butte County Behavioral Health and will be selected by that agency.