Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
As climate change ratchets up wildfire intensity, families in the Rogue Valley are struggling to find stable housing. 'Home for Now' is an intimate look into the lives of Lanette and Steve Martin and of Alma Alvarez and her family, as they move into the Redwood Inn this spring, after losing their homes in the wildfires that swept across southern Oregon last year.
Read the full story: hcn.org/issues/53.6/north-people-places-hotels-for-those-left-unhoused-by-wildfires
Production, Cinematography, and Editing by Brandon Yadegari Moreno
With Co-Production by Hanna Merzbach
Executive Producers: Roberto (Bear) Guerra & Bernardo Ruiz
Creative Advisor: Victor Tadashi Suarez
Music: Joel Goodman for Universal Production Music
This film was made possible, in part, by the Society of Environmental Journalists.
High Country News is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) independent media organization that covers the important issues and stories that define the Western United States. Through insightful, in-depth journalism, it strives to inform and inspire people to act on behalf of the West's diverse natural and human communities.
As climate change ratchets up wildfire intensity, families in the Rogue Valley are struggling to find stable housing. 'Home for Now' is an intimate look into the lives of Lanette and Steve Martin and of Alma Alvarez and her family, as they move into the Redwood Inn this spring, after losing their homes in the wildfires that swept across southern Oregon last year.
Read the full story: hcn.org/issues/53.6/north-people-places-hotels-for-those-left-unhoused-by-wildfires
Production, Cinematography, and Editing by Brandon Yadegari Moreno
With Co-Production by Hanna Merzbach
Executive Producers: Roberto (Bear) Guerra & Bernardo Ruiz
Creative Advisor: Victor Tadashi Suarez
Music: Joel Goodman for Universal Production Music
This film was made possible, in part, by the Society of Environmental Journalists.
High Country News is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) independent media organization that covers the important issues and stories that define the Western United States. Through insightful, in-depth journalism, it strives to inform and inspire people to act on behalf of the West's diverse natural and human communities.
