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Corvallis Sustainability Coalition > Action Teams > Housing > Housing Resources

Housing Resources

Housing Resources

Organizations

  • Benton Habitat for Humanity
  • Community Outreach
  • Community Services Consortium
  • Corvallis Housing First
  • DevNW
  • Linn-Benton Housing Authority

City of Corvallis

  • Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)
  • Housing and Neighborhood Services Division
  • Housing Assistance Resources

Reports

  • Homelessness in Corvallis: Exploring the Numbers, Evaluating the Beliefs
    League of Women Voters of Corvallis, Housing Committee – March 2017
  • The Role of Affordable Housing in Creating Jobs and Fostering Economic Growth
    Center for Housing Policy – January 2011
  • National Housing Conference Research Library

More Information

  • What you can do about climate change
  • Ways to reduce your carbon footprint
  • World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice
  • A Home Retrofit Story: savings example
  • Energy Retrofit: a Corvallis case study

Downloadable Information about Home Retrofits

  • Energy Retrofit of Older Home
  • Passive House with cutting edge features
  • Energy trust programs
  • Manufactured Home contacts for upgrades
  • What can you do about climate change?

Local Organizations that May Help Lower Income Households Reduce Retrofitting and Home Repair Costs

  • Energy Trust Incentives and Rebates 
  • Benton Habitat for Humanity
  • Community Services Consortium 
  • Seeds for the Sol — helps lower income households install solar PV
  • Corvallis Environmental Center –installs free LED lightbulbs for Pacific Power customers
  • City of Corvallis — loan program for home repairs, repayable at sale of home 

Informative Articles

  • Electrify Everything: How to quickly switch from fossil fuels to renewables. 
  • Living Building Challenge (LBC) rating system. The first LBC rated home is in downtown Bend, OR (see TED talk embedded in article).
  • Passive Homes – No furnace needed:  A Passive Home Tour 
  • CNN covers the Passive House movement 
  • Videos that explain Passive House concepts:
    • 1950s Home Retrofit to Super Efficient Passive House
    • Passive House = 90% Home Energy Reduction!
    • Passive House Explained in 90 Seconds

Other

  • Planning a Retrofit in the Pacific Northwest 
  • EESI Institute– Super energy-efficient retrofits of multifamily affordable homes:
    • Keeping Bradford Apartments Affordable through Energy Efficiency
    • We Must Invest In Climate-Ready Affordable Housing Now

Housing

VISION: All residents have access to affordable housing options. Housing is energy efficient, provides a healthy living environment, and reduces waste through recycling and preservation; and all new construction minimizes impacts on our resources and environment.

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