Resources

Find tools, worksheets, guides, and examples here to use when working on eviction prevention in your region.

Use the social media toolkit

The Stanford Legal Design Lab has a free social media toolkit for a nonprofit or government agency to use with eviction prevention outreach.

How-To Toolkits on ERAP & Eviction Prevention

image overview of Emergency Rent Assistance toolkit
https://www.nlc.org/resource/emergency-rental-assistance-toolkit-how-to-resources-for-equitable-effective-programs/

The Emergency Rental Assistance Toolkit is a 12-part series of how-to guides for making more impactful, equitable, and accessible Emergency Rental Assistance Programs. The ERA Toolkit was made by the National League of Cities and Stanford Legal Design Lab, based on their technical assistance and research with cities across the US.

Recent resources posts

  • Understanding Evictions: A Guide to Using Local Court Data from New America
    The “Future of Land and Housing” group at the national thinktank New America has just released a new detailed guide for courts, community advocates, data scientists, legal service providers, and policymakers about how to find, clean, standardize, and use eviction data from their courts. This guide is the result of an intensive, cross-jurisdiction, multi-stakeholder project…
  • Eviction Prevention Design Strategy guide
    For regional leaders looking to improve people’s eviction-related outcomes, use this Design Strategy plan to review what you already offer & where you can improve.
  • Eviction Laws Report Card for Indiana
    A university team has measured up their state’s laws, to see how their landlord-tenant laws, eviction protections, and housing court practices measure up to national standards.
  • Indiana Evictions Dashboard
    Indiana courts have made data about eviction filings available, and this interactive dashboard presents case filing data along with demographic, geographic, and individual story data.
  • Housing Justice Narrative Toolkit
    The PolicyLink group released a toolkit for groups working on improving housing in the US, that helps them tell more persuasive and engaging narratives. The Narrative Toolkit covers topics that communities can use like: Find the Housing Justice Narrative Toolkit here, for more guidance and resources.

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