Catalogue of Services > Homeless & Housing Services

Emergency Housing Services

CAN provides hotel vouchers in emergency situations. This service is provided when funding is available and after the applicant has undergone our screening process. For more details, please contact us at our office.

Homeless Active Remediation & Prevention (HARP) Program

CAN assists seniors and disabled individuals in filing the necessary paperwork as part of the application process for state subsidized assistance. For more information about this service, please contact our office today. It includes rental assistance, case management & goal setting, life skills classes and more. Funded by the Homeless Prevention & Rapid Rehousing Program through ARRA.

Shower Passes and Hygienic Supplies

We provide hygienic supplies and passes for hot showers and for individuals on an as-needed basis. Please call our office today if you would like more information or if you would like to make a donation of hygienic or other supplies.

CANCottages

CANCottages was spurred by the notion that problems are disguised opportunities.

One pertinent problem is that the United States imports far more goods than it exports. This creates a vast stateside surplus of steel shipping containers. Another problem is the lack of decent, affordable housing in Del Norte County and our region. The team at CAN has devised a viable and promising solution for both of these problems: take steel shipping containers and transform them into structurally-innovative, eco-friendly, affordable homes. The containers are superbly suited as primary structural components for buildings of all types, including houses, apartments, office suites, hospitals, schools, and community facilities. We have partnered with Jeff Mitchell, a local architect, and are in the preliminary stages of building a prototype single-family unit, scheduled to be completed by late 2009. CANCottages will also allow us to expand our current welfare-to-work vocational training to include training and job placement within the construction field. In the post-prototype phase, this innovative construction technique will be available to benefit individuals and families of all income levels, as well as to public and private agencies looking to build new facilities.

Check back periodically for updates on the status of this exciting project.

CAN has released the RFB for CANCottages. You may download the RFB by clicking here.

CAN in partnership with the Del Norte Homeless Prevention Alliance conducted the first Point In Time Count of the homeless in January 2011. To download and read the report, click here.