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Housing Resources

Local Organizations

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

City of Corvallis

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

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

Home Retrofits

  • A Home Retrofit Story: savings example
  • Energy Retrofit: a Corvallis case study
  • Planning a Retrofit in the Pacific Northwest 
  • How to participate in Energy Trust of Oregon incentive programs
  • Manufactured home contacts for upgrades

Reduce Retrofit and Repair Costs

  • Energy Trust Incentives and Rebates 
  • Benton Habitat for Humanity – Critical Home Repair Program
  • Community Services Consortium – weatherization
  • Seeds for the Sol — helps lower income households install solar power
  • City of Corvallis – home repair loan program for low-income homeowners 

Passive Homes (no furnace needed)

  • Passive house with cutting edge features
  • A Passive Home Tour – G. Christianson Construction
  • 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

More Information

  • Ways to reduce your carbon footprint
  • What can you do about climate change?
  • World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice
  • 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).
  • 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

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The Housing Action Team meets on the second Monday of each month from 12 noon to 1:00 pm.

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Download a copy of the Housing vision, goals, strategies and actions outlined in Community Sustainability: A Framework for Action.

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