Ojai Tent Town—OTT

04/11/2026

OJAI TENT TOWN WISH LIST:
Storage bins - We can't have too many. The participants need them to protect their belongings from rats.
25 spray bottles - These will help keep them cool when the weather heats up.
Stick up lights - We need battery operated stick up lights for the porta potties.
Metal Wagon
2 10' x 5' white tarps
Items can be shipped to Ojai Tent Town C/O Ojai City Hall, 401 S. Ventura Street, Ojai 93023 OR you can drop off at OTT
THANK YOU OJAI FOR CARING!

04/04/2026

Happy April, spring has sprung and our meal train calendar is now open!!! For those unable to volunteer in person, preparing and delivering a meal is a valuable alternative, providing essential assistance to individuals in need.
We’d love to see you, so hop on over sometime soon 💐🙏🏽🕊️

Ojai Tent Town is the unhoused encampment by City Hall. Our residents are all in need of meals. This is an opportunity for the Ojai Community to help provide for our unhoused neighbors. Register - https://www.mealtrain.com/

03/23/2026

We are always thankful for volunteers here at Ojai Tent town. Recently, Just Serve and Refuge church came by to help with some moving, clean up, brought donations and some other friends came to help organize 🙂
If you are interested in volunteering, positive creative, and solution oriented we would greatly appreciate you connecting with us here at the OTT. 🙂

03/19/2026

https://a.co/d/05MFM8Dh
HELP!
Summer came too soon for the participants at Ojai Tent Town. They have a desperate need for relief. We are asking for anyone who can, to please donate a portable swamp cooler. The one attached can be ordered from Amazon. Thank you to all of the wonderful people who have helped in so many ways.

Portable Swamp Coolers - 1300 CFM MC18M Evaporative Air Cooler with 2-Speed Fan, 53.4 dB - 500 sq. ft. Coverage Evaporative Air Cooler Portable High Velocity Outdoor Cooling Fan by Hessaire - White

01/12/2026

Look who decided to blossom and bring some added joy to the OTT on Saturday🌹🌺🌷

The elder women especially loved her, another participant pointed out that some pollen looked like flecks of gold dust, which reminded some of us there is figuratively gold to be found everywhere, sometimes we just need to take a second look, reflect a bit more, go inside or look around, that with optimistic love as our perspective the gold can always be found.

We are grateful for Atomic Love Explosion who often adds some extra beauty here at the OTT, and for all of you who help care for others in need.
I🙏🏽💌❤️😍✨

01/07/2026

Looking for donations of plastic totes to help a person in need get organized. Would like today but to have some on hand for future use would be great!
🙏🏽

01/01/2026

01/25/2025

NEW article in favor of Cabin Village 👏
Published in latest edition of the
Ojai Valley News

The city of Ojai has a unique opportunity to address homelessness with compassion and foresight. By approving the Public Works Yard as the permanent site for the Cabin Village, the

01/25/2025

Seeking: Applicants for Outreach Case Manager, specific to Ojai Tent Town ...

All details, application here:
https://tinyurl.com/3juy4xra

Job Description:
HELP of Ojai’s Community Assistance Program provides immediate and long-term help to low-income families, individuals and older adults that reside in the Ojai Valley. The Homeless Services Outreach Case Manager will work directly with clients living in the City of Ojai’s homeless encampment and provide supportive services during the transition to permanent housing and beyond.

This is a real opportunity for someone who feels led to serve the community with a significant role in our shaping our progress, our future !

HELP of Ojai

01/25/2025

*FOR SUPPORTERS IN 93023 & 93022*
Community, we encourage you to support the CABIN VILLAGE Project & Location (already initially approved by Ojai City Council last August)

Friends of Cabin Village invites everyone in the Ojai area (especially in 93023 & 93022) to sign the new petition, which already has 170+ online signatures: https://www.change.org/p/support-ojai-public-works-yard-as-site-for-the-cabin-village-5c338f82-479a-4876-9a38-349008f16fa1

Here are the words of a close neighbor of Ojai Tent Town, in support of Cabin Village Public Works Yard, excerpted from current edition of the Ojai Valley News:

I am a friend of the Cabin Village Project. ... ALL 30 (not just 20) of the vetted and established seniors and vulnerable of Ojai Tent Town will have the ability to have a heated, secure room within walking distance of downtown services and HELP of Ojai.

Cabin Village is a residential development for a residential neighborhood, surrounded and screened by native vegetation. Kathy Nolan's firm has been contracted to landscape the grounds and privacy wall with native plants. It will be beautiful in an Ojai style.

Equally important is that the developer, DignityMoves, is being held to high sustainability eco-standards of design, systems, and materials. We will soon see architectural drawings.
.. I know we have some very good neighbors. Yet, I am saddened that a group of property owners - blocks away, who will not see Cabin Village from their properties - are using their power to try to "relocate" the project, saying this residential project doesn't belong anywhere near them.

Let's be clear. There is no relocating to be had. This is the time, this is the place. The state of California is watching. It wants us to succeed and serve as a template for other small municipalities.

The state gave us $12.7 million to do this.

We have the money, the site, the developer, the support team, and a community who needs us to build something tasteful and safe, that can be a Point of Pride for Ojai.

Let's Do It ! (Dulanie La Barre, Ojai)

*Dulanie's statement can be read in full via today's OVN (in print version only).
As well, you can view full statement online during this past Wednesday's Planning Commission meeting.
Full video of the meeting (her comments begin @ 0:07:50, followed by the Ojai Ohana representative related statement), https://youtu.be/Y7tQlgELJ0A

Longtime low-income residents of this area who have lost their homes deserve their own dignified living space. We can all work together to help those in need.
Please Join Us 😀