MILL CITY â What had been a tranquil piece of property on the north side of Mill City is now a busy construction zone, with bulldozers shoving dirt and rock and excavators digging large holes as contractors install utilities for 16 manufactured homes provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The homes â fabricated in Texas â will soon be occupied by Santiam Canyon residents from Lyons to Detroit who were displaced by the Labor Day wildfires that destroyed homes, businesses and public and private forestlands.
Mill City Recorder Stacy Cook said the homes are being set on a section of a 6-acre site that will be part of the cityâs new wastewater drainfield.
Construction begins on FEMA Mill City housing site for wildfire victims
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Federal officials are starting to build a temporary housing site for residents in Linn and Marion counties who lost everything in the 2020 wildfires.
KOIN-TV reports the Mill City site will hold up to 16 temporary housing units, according to the Federal Emergency Management Administration.
FEMA said Monday it s setting up utilities now before the mobile homes arrive. Media relations specialist for FEMA, La-Tanga Hopes, says the homes are expected to arrive in Mill City in three to four weeks.
In Oregon, 250 families have been approved to receive FEMA Direct Temporary Housing, but that number has decreased, as many households have found alternate temporary or permanent housing on their own.