Emergency Housing for Families Displaced by the Spokane Fires

No. This is open to anyone in Spokane County who lost their housing to the fires or who can't return home because of them.

Thrive was built to house people arriving from crisis. Right now that includes our neighbors. There is no status requirement and no referral requirement.

Thrive team members are here to help connect you with local, state and federal agencies and organizations that are providing funds to individuals who were displaced because of the recent fires in the Spokane community. If you have been displaced because of the recent fires, you are likely eligible to apply for and receive temporary emergency housing funds.

The fees Thrive is charging for temporary emergency housing cover the costs of keeping our building open, including staffing, utilities, cleaning, and linens.

We'll get you the paperwork.

Many renters and homeowners policies include Additional Living Expenses (ALE) coverage, which reimburses temporary lodging after a covered loss. FEMA assistance may apply as well.

We provide itemized receipts and written documentation of your stay — dates, nightly rate, household size — in whatever format your adjuster needs. Ask our staff and we'll put it together.

Most people don't right now. That's fine; we don't need you to know.

Stays are approved a week at a time. Every seven days, our staff will sit down with you to see where things stand and extend your stay if you still need it. That check-in is also how we help you connect with insurance, FEMA, and longer-term housing as your situation becomes clearer.

We'll do our best to call within 72 hours of your form coming in, at the number you gave us. It may come from a number you don't recognize — please pick up.

We welcome certified service animals. If you have one, let us know on the form; we'll ask you to provide verification that your animal is certified before check-in.

We know how hard it is to be separated from a pet right now, especially after everything else. If you need a safe place for your animal while you're with us, local shelters are taking in pets for displaced families at no cost, and our staff can help you connect with them when we call.

Each room has a private bath, linens, and access to shared common areas, laundry, refrigerator, hotplate and microwave. Utilities are included (electricity, water, WIFI, and parking).

Bring a photo ID if you still have it. If it burned, come anyway; we'll work around it. Beyond that, bring what you have.

They're still here, and they're staying.

Thrive Center is home to refugee and immigrant families who came to Spokane after losing their own homes — to war, to persecution, to disaster. Many of them have lived through some version of what our neighbors are living through this week.

No current resident is going without housing to make room for others.

Thrive International was founded in Spokane in 2021 on a simple idea: that a community can meet displacement with a local response. We built that response for people arriving here from somewhere else.

This time the people who need housing are our own neighbors, and we have rooms. The work is the same work.

Local solutions to a global crisis. The crisis found its way home.