Refugio y vivienda

El refugio nocturno se mudó. El condado de Winnebago ahora indica el refugio nocturno en:

Appleton North High School, 5000 N Ballard Rd, Appleton, WI 54913.

Christ the Rock Community Church ya no es el refugio nocturno. Sigue abierto como sitio para refrescarse y cargar el teléfono, pero si necesita dónde dormir, vaya a Appleton North. Si alguien le dijo Christ the Rock a principios de semana, tenía razón entonces — cambió.

No se permiten mascotas — solo animales de servicio. Si tiene una mascota, vea la sección de Mascotas y Animales para opciones de hospedaje antes de venir.

Traiga, si puede recogerlos sin riesgo: medicamentos, identificación y documentos, y su teléfono con cargador. En el sitio solo hay lo mínimo indispensable.

Si está desplazado y no tiene a dónde ir antes del toque de queda de las 10 p.m., aquí es a donde ir.

The REALTORS Association of Northeast Wisconsin has secured up to $150,000 from the NAR Relief Foundation for people affected by the July 2026 storms.

This is a grant. You do not pay it back.

Up to $1,000, and what it covers depends on your situation:

• If you own your home — a mortgage payment
• If you rent — hotel costs, the costs of signing a new lease, and temporary housing payments to family or friends you have been staying with

That last one is worth reading twice. If you have been sleeping in a relative's spare room and giving them money toward it, that is an eligible expense. Most people assume it cannot be, and never ask.

You do not have to be buying or selling a house, and you do not need an estate agent. This is a disaster relief fund that happens to be administered by the REALTORS association.

How to apply

1. Fill in the application form (a fillable PDF)
2. Gather what the documentation checklist asks for
3. Send it in as directed on the form

If someone can personally attest to how the storm affected you, a third-party verification form is available and speeds up the review.

The fund is finite — $150,000 across everyone who applies. That is not a reason to panic, but it is a reason not to leave it until next month.

The Fox Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau arranged reduced rates at hotels across the Fox Valley and Oshkosh for residents displaced by the July 27 storms.

When you call, identify yourself as a resident of an evacuated area. That is what unlocks the emergency rate and priority assistance — it is not applied automatically and it is usually not bookable online.

Individual hotels, rates and current availability are listed separately below. Availability changes quickly; call before you drive.

Pillars provides emergency shelter and helps people find safe, affordable housing. Winnebago County lists them for households displaced by the tornado.

920-734-9192 · 605 E Hancock Street, Appleton · PillarsInc.org

Why this is a different thing from the overnight shelter

Appleton North High School is a bed tonight. Pillars is the organisation that deals with the next question — where you go when a congregate shelter closes, and how you get into somewhere of your own with no deposit and a damaged rental history.

The county is unusually candid about the difficulty here, and it is worth repeating: the Fox Cities had a serious housing shortage before the tornado, and it has not improved. Nobody is going to place you in a flat next week. Getting into the queue early is most of what you can control.

You do not have to have been homeless before to call them. A large share of people displaced by a tornado have never needed a housing service in their lives, and that is not a reason to wait until things are worse.

The Society of St Vincent de Paul covers several of the gaps that are hardest to fill three weeks in.

• Gas cards and bus passes. If the problem is simply getting to work, to an appointment, or back to your own house to clear it
• Household goods, clothing and furniture from their thrift stores, given rather than sold, based on a conversation about what you need
• A food and hygiene pantry at the Neenah/Menasha location

You can apply online, for either location, using their Financial Assistance Request Form — and the form exists in Spanish (Formulario de Solicitud de Ayuda Financiera).

Neenah/Menasha — 920-727-1766 · SVDPNeenah.org Appleton — 920-739-1679 · SVDPAppleton.org

Volunteers meet with people to work out what is actually needed, so it is a conversation rather than a form-and-wait.

If you have been rehoused with nothing in the house

St Vincent de Paul's national disaster arm runs a programme called House in a Box — furniture, bedding and some appliances, packed as a kit and shipped to a household's new home. It is arranged through a local organisation rather than by you directly, so mention it when you speak to them, or to your case manager if you have one. SVDPDisaster.org

World Relief Wisconsin supports refugees directly affected by the tornado. The county lists them under housing, basic needs and legal services, which in practice means one organisation that will take the whole situation rather than one piece of it.

920-231-3600 · WorldRelief.org/Wisconsin

What they do

• Needs assessment — someone sits down and works out what you actually need
• Case management — one person who knows your situation, instead of explaining it again at every office
• Referrals into the other help listed on this site
• Document recovery
• Housing assistance
• Basic needs assistance

Why document recovery matters here

If your household arrived as refugees, some of your papers cannot be reordered from a county clerk. Immigration documents, resettlement paperwork, records from another country — losing those to a tornado is a different and much harder problem than losing a birth certificate, and it is worth going to people who deal with it specifically.

This does not replace the ordinary routes. For a Wisconsin birth certificate, driver's licence or Social Security card, see "Replacing lost vital documents" under Insurance & Money — that is faster for anything the state itself issued.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is offering free help across three things the county lists separately:

• Home repair knowledge — advice and practical help working out how to put something right
• Loading and unloading boxes if you are relocating. This is the one people do not think to ask for, and it is exactly what is hard when you are moving a household you did not plan to move
• Basic care needs, and mental health and religious care if you want it

773-766-5667 · churchofjesuschrist.org

You do not have to be a member of the church, and nothing here is conditional on becoming one.

Este ya no es el refugio nocturno. El condado de Winnebago mudó el refugio nocturno a Appleton North High School, 5000 N Ballard Rd, Appleton.

Christ the Rock sigue en la lista como sitio para refrescarse y cargar — un lugar para salir del calor, cargar el teléfono y sentarse.

Albergó gente desde las 2:30 p.m. del 27 de julio durante la primera semana, y mucha gente en Menasha todavía lo asocia con eso. Si necesita una cama esta noche, vaya a Appleton North.