Housing affordability was always a major issue for the Rogue Action Center.
It became an even more critical issue when the Almeda Drive and South Obenchain fires burned down something like 2,500 homes. That is not a blow that can be absorbed by a housing market with low vacancy rates and generally high rents.
So RAC and other organizations are pushing for short- and long-term solutions to get affordable places set up for people to live.
RAC itself has to find a new home, since it lost its old one to the Almeda Drive fire. Executive Director Michelle Glass visits to talk about the road ahead, joined by Rich Rohde, member of Southern Oregon Housing for All and chair of Ashland's Housing & Human Services Commission.