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

  • 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.
  • Service Mapping all eviction prevention resources in a region
    Are you working on building a better coalition of services for tenants at risk of eviction, or who have recently been evicted? You may try a 1-2 hour Service Mapping exercise to build a better regional coalition & establish a resource directory that different legal, financial, housing, and government groups can use to connect people…

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