Creating Housing Coaltion

Coat: coat is a collaborative initiative whose focus is on providing assistance to community members in linn and benton counties and the i-5 santiam rest area in marion county who are experiencing homelessness or who are housing-unstable. Joining together with c.h.a.n.c.e, a 100% peer-run nonprofit organization, and community service consortium, the community action agency for linn, benton, and lincoln counties, coat provides assistance and outreach to those in need. Coat works closely with the other service agencies in albany, connecting community members to needed services. We offer intensive case management for individuals who need assistance obtaining services. Clients include highly vulnerable individuals considered extremely low to law income as measured by hud ami, often with chronic physical and mental health disorders, who are experiencing housing, food, and income insecurity. Much of this extremely vulnerable population includes the elderly and people with disabilities who find themselves without housing for the first time in their lives. Most people we see have either no or very limited knowledge of the services available to them. We facilitate access and referral to housing supports and offer intensive case management. Coat assisted over 2,142 unduplicated clients in 2024.