This is a final update from your facilitator on progress to date and ideas for next steps on turning tragedy into transformation after the September 2020 urban wildfires in the Rogue Valley. As these are the final days of my contract to support Caryn Wheeler-Clay in building the LTRG into a thriving recovery organization, I […]
Category Archives: Rebuilding
R3V Facilitator Update – Week 20 – 2022 – LTRG Update
I hope you’ve been well, it’s been a while since our last update. We’re making steady progress building our community momentum toward recovery. Caryn and I meet a few times per week to work on ramping up the LTRG including: Onboarding new team members working in Assistant and Outreach and Communications roles. Securing budget approval […]
Collective Impact Meeting Mar 23, 2022- Community Development Block Grants – Disaster Recovery and Mitigation
This meeting was an information packed discussion of Community Development Block Grant programs that will disburse over $420 million dollars in Oregon over the next few years. Panelists Alex Campbell, OHCS Larry Florin, Burbank Housing Jennifer Gray Thompson, After the Fire Margaret Van Vliet, Trillium Advisors, Sonoma and Oregon Caryn Wheeler-Clay, JCC LTRG Questions Addressed […]
R3V Facilitator Update – Week 10 – 2022 – Building, Building
I hope you’ve been well, it’s been a while since our last update. We’re making steady progress building our community momentum toward recovery. Caryn and I meet many times per week to work on ramping up the LTRG including: Board strategic planning Recruiting new team members. The job openings are all available via the website. […]
Community Visioning Opportunities February 2022 Collective Impact Meeting
Goal of the meeting How do we prepare ourselves as a community to meet these opportunities to re-envision parts of our valley? The agenda is here Why it’s important These projects represent a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to re envision what our fire-affected communities will be like to live in. The fires were a terrible reset for […]
Essentials of Land Leasing for Owners
Why lease out your land? The challenge is that we are very short on housing for working families. One reason is that when land becomes available private developers often focus on the “highest and best use” which around here often means building $400,000 condos for retirees. The problem is that our essential workers, in healthcare, […]
Accessory Dwelling Unit
What is an ADU? ADU is short for Accessory Dwelling Unit. It can be accessory to detached single-family homes, townhouses, manufactured homes and duplex dwellings on their own lot. Jump to your town’s ADU rules: Medford – Phoenix – Talent – Ashland – Central Point – Jackson County If you are a professional homebuilder, see […]
Affordable Housing Toolkit
ECONorthwest put together a very useful list of options for easing the development of affordable housing that might be extended to the development of attainable housing as well. View the document here.
Southern Oregon Housing Market Studies
As we look for ways to support the development of a variety of housing options to meet the needs of Rogue Valley residents, we have compiled a list of relevant online resources. We are happy to share what we’ve found interesting and useful and hope that you will contact us if there are any important […]
Creating Sustainable Long-Term Recovery: It Takes All of Us
We’re so happy to support these people and their efforts turning tragedy into transformation! Long term recovery and sustainability. “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” -Rahm Emanuel