Possible housing solutions after wildfires

Possible housing solutions after wildfires

The city manager of talent says she believes this ban is a step in the right direction but not a solution for everyone.

Newswatch 12's samantha didion spoke with spelliscy earlier today about possible options for people who lost their homes.

Samantha what can you tell us?

Speliscy sasy that while the eviction ban helps people who still have a home, it does not do much for people who lost their homes in the recent wildfires.

She says nonprofit organizations are coming together to help raise money for things like motel rooms and temporary housing.

Spelliscy says that phoenix and talent were considered affordable places to live.

With so many people being renters with so many of these affordable homes now gone she is concerned people might move away.

Sandra: "its a huge hug loss to that segment of our population that was already struggling to find affordable housing anyway."

Spelliscy says the city's goal is to bring talent back in a way that it can still be an affordable place for people to live in the rogue valley.

While homes and properties are being rebuilt, talent and phoenix are working together to provide more permanent temporary homes such as mobile homes and trailers.

Around eight-hundred structures in talent were lost in the almeda fire.

Spelliscy says around seven hundred of those were homes.

An apartment building is considered one structure, so it hard to tell how many people are now displaced.

But spelliscy estimates that number