SETA facilitates an email list and monthly meeting for Housing Navigator professionals across Lane County. Hybrid meetings are held on the second Wednesday of every month from 2:30 - 4 pm. If you'd like to be added to our Housing Navigators email list and/or join our meetings, please contact [email protected] 

Helpful Resources & Educational Materials for Housing Navigators

Landlord Tenant Law Fast Facts Brochures: A series of brochures which are intended to be used as quick reference guides for common issues a tenant may experience. These brochures should NOT be considered legal advice and should not replace consulting with an attorney. For more in-depth guides or help, please see our renter's rights guides or contact our hotline at 541-972-3715. 

Impact Tracker: This is a live tracker of any impacts to federally-funded housing programs here in Oregon run by Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS). Check here for accurate and up-to-date information. 

Lane County's HMIS Help Desk: Trainings, Guides, and helpful information on utilizing HMIS. 

Overview of Lane County Homelessness Prevention and Diversion Programs: A slideshow with compiled information on Homelessness Prevention in Lane County. You can utilize this as a reference or training for new staff members at your organization!

Trauma-Informed Housing Toolkit: This toolkit provides education on what trauma informed housing is, how to design trauma informed housing spaces, case studies to review, and measuring the impact of trauma informed practices

Language Justice - A Toolkit for Organizers: This toolkit was created to support organizers in integrating the framework and practices of language justice into their work. Language and communication are foundational to the work of organizing. Being intentional about language practices is essential to building representative, resilient, healthy and strategic movements capable of making the transformative changes needed. 

Sanctuary Promise Community Toolkit: This toolkit created by the Oregon Department of Justice offers an explanation of what it means to be a Sanctuary State, what places are protected, how to prepare for encountering ICE or other federal immigration authorities, and reporting violations of sanctuary law. 

RecordSponge: A tool case workers can utilize to help identify if a person has any expungable criminal records to help them be successful in background checks for housing and career opportunities.

Eviction Prevention and Tenant Protections

Evicted in Oregon: This PSU research project is focused on understanding how evictions happen, for the purpose of eliminating them. Learn how evictions work, review eviction data across the state (including Lane County specific data), and how tenant organizers can work with this data to reduce evictions.

Eviction Research Network: This analysis of evictions in Oregon from 2017 to 2024 helps provide an understanding of the increase in racial disparity, total eviction filings, and overall household displacement across Oregon.

National Low Income Housing Coalition's Tenant Protections Database: NLIHC provides information about tenant protection laws that have assisted in preventing evictions and keeping renters stably housed since the onset of COVID-19 as well as specific tenant protections that were in place prior to 2021, such as right to counsel, source-of-income discrimination, eviction record sealing and expungement legislation, anti-rent gouging measures, and just-cause eviction laws.

State and Local Innovations for Tenant Rights, Rental Assistance, and more: If you're wanting to learn more about national, state, and local trends in tenant protections, this site has a lot you can learn in one place! Explore case studies on local habitability protections, rent stabilization, "Just Cause" evictions and Rental Junk Fees or take a look at the tool kits for "Just Cause" Evictions, Code Enforcement and Habitability Standards, Rent Stabilization, and Junk Fees.

Eviction Innovation: This project from Standford University profiles current initiatives to address the eviction crisis across the US, including a database of programs to help governments and nonprofits develop more effective and human-centered eviction prevention strategies. Learn about the harms of evictions, eviction diversion strategies for your community, and how to measure program impact.

Eviction Prevention: A Guide for Local Governments: A guide created by the National League of Cities to help local governments understand how they can take an active role in preventing evictions and supporting tenants

Affordable Housing

The GAP | National Low Income Housing Coalition: Data from NLIHC on Affordable Rental Housing. The GAP also provides a Press Contact and Graphics kit featuring many free-to-reprint infographics displaying various statistics related to affordable housing and low-income renters. Oregon Specific data can be found here: Gap Report: Oregon

Housing Production and Housing Equity Dashboards: Oregon Housing and Community Services runs two dashboards outlining key indicators of the state of housing in Oregon. The Housing production dashboard displays information from the Oregon Housing Needs Analysis (OHNA) which is a collaboration between the Oregon office of Economic Analysis and the Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD). The Housing Equity Dashboard, produced by OHCS outlines housing outcomes such as cost burden, availability, of housing units to own/rent, housing conditions, risk of gentrification, and much more. 

If you have recommendations of additional resources we should add to this page, please email them to [email protected]!