flood recovery and relocation assistance

On january 14th due to the combinations of the portland ice storm and negligence from our landlord, our beloved mid century home of 3 years is being deemed condemned and uninhabitable. The furnace inside the home burst leading us to suffer through 3 days of freezing temperatures and, not long after the pipes in our home started to burst open causing a flood. the flood had been going for 4 days straight before we were able to turn the water off. This caused many of our personal belongings, furniture and sentimental items to be lost due to water damage.

Due to this flood, 4 people and one senior cat 20 years of age are also left facing homelessness with little left. This fund would help benefit the renters to relocate to new housing, repurchase furniture, a commercial dehumidifier, storage costs for what we can recover, food, repurchasing college supplies, pet medicine, moving trucks, dry clothing, toiletries, new computers and other technology that was lost.

This event has been extremely triggering as two of the people living in this home are college students who have struggled with homelessness at multiple points in their lives including childhood. one tenant residing here was a vintage furniture collector that took pride in their treasured pieces, another was a lifelong pokémon card collector who lost a large portion of their collection.

we loved our home dearly and considered it the most fortunate thing about our lives.