town: -> Wildfire Regions

website: -> http://www.homematching.org/
areas_served: -> San Diego
eligibility: -> Impacted by the 2007 SoCal Wildfires

main_phone: -> Larry Goldberg (707-845-7272
notes: How It Works For people in need of housing: When you register as a person needing housing, your information is stored our database. This information is confidential and will only be shared when a match is found (the closest match to your needs). When a person offering housing sees your profile, they will contact you directly to talk one-to-one about what they can offer. Please respect their hospitality and provide any details they may request to confirm your information. Any supporting documents (for your identity or status) are strictly between you and the person offering housing. These are people just like you, so be respectful. Honest communication is key. Please provide truthful information for people offering housing and respect their home rules. Once you find housing, please come back to the site and remove your name from the database so it will not be forwarded to anyone else. For people offering housing: When you register and indicate your housing availability our system will work to locate a match to your requirements and will send you information on people in need of housing who meet your criteria. PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A ONE-WAY EXCHANGE - as a volunteer your information is NOT provided to anyone else. It is up to YOU to contact someone who needs housing directly, person-to-person. It's also up to you to determine if you want to offer housing to anyone - you are under no obligation to house anyone! This is a citizen-to-citizen exchange, so use your own good judgment if you want to offer your home to share with someone else. Thank you for your help and together we'll overcome this disaster! -> How It Works For people in need of housing: When you register as a person needing housing, your information is stored our database. This information is confidential and will only be shared when a match is found (the closest match to your needs). When a person offering housing sees your profile, they will contact you directly to talk one-to-one about what they can offer. Please respect their hospitality and provide any details they may request to confirm your information. Any supporting documents (for your identity or status) are strictly between you and the person offering housing. These are people just like you, so be respectful. Honest communication is key. Please provide truthful information for people offering housing and respect their home rules. Once you find housing, please come back to the site and remove your name from the database so it will not be forwarded to anyone else. For people offering housing: When you register and indicate your housing availability our system will work to locate a match to your requirements and will send you information on people in need of housing who meet your criteria. PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A ONE-WAY EXCHANGE - as a volunteer your information is NOT provided to anyone else. It is up to YOU to contact someone who needs housing directly, person-to-person. It's also up to you to determine if you want to offer housing to anyone - you are under no obligation to house anyone! This is a citizen-to-citizen exchange, so use your own good judgment if you want to offer your home to share with someone else. Thank you for your help and together we'll overcome this disaster! ================================================================ Press Release October 26, 2007 Press Release For Immediate Release Re: Volunteer emergency housing for victims of San Diego Wildfires What: Launch of new web site (www.homematching.org) to match California volunteers providing housing with victims of S. Cal. Wildfires Contact: Larry Goldberg (707-845-7272; larry@northcoast.com) or Mary Crumley, President Rotary Club of Southwest Rotary (707-442-3333; maryjpgr@suddenlink.net) A group of Rotarians and concerned citizens of Humboldt Co. (North Coast California) have developed a web site offering temporary emergency housing for people suffering from loss of their homes and apartments in San Diego County. “This exemplifies the spirit of Rotary. We see a need and fill it in the spirit of ‘service above self’,” said Mary Crumley, President of the Rotary Club of Southwest Eureka. “I just saw a need to help individuals and families who have suffered through this terrible disaster and we want to provide citizen-to-citizen help” said Larry Goldberg, a private IT and business consultant. As a member of the Rotary Club of Southwest Eureka and a member of the Redwood Technology Consortium, he networked his business contacts to create a rapid response to this crisis. The concept behind this website was based on community efforts in Texas which came out of Hurricane Katrina, but no similar website was found for this situation, so a new site was developed and launched within 24 hours from it’s conception on October 25th. This service is open to all concerned citizens so anyone can log onto http://www.homematching.org and provide housing or request temporary housing if they’ve been displaced by the wildfires of San Diego. This is a citizen-to-citizen effort matching people offering temporary housing with people who are victims of the wildfires of San Diego. All information is kept confidential and only people providing housing are provided match information, assuring privacy to all volunteers providing temporary housing. The authors of this website are Josh Koenig (of Chapter Three websites, www.chapterthreellc.com) and site design and graphics provided by Matt Koglin (of Antinomia, www.antinomia.com), Michael Welch (Redwood Alliance and Climate Action Project, www.redwoodalliance.org) For more information, contact Larry Goldberg (707-845-7272, larry@northcoast.com) or Mary Crumley (707-442-3333; maryjpgr@suddenlink.net), President of the Rotary Club of Southwest Eureka (www.swrotary.org). To learn more about Rotary, go to http://www.rotary.org