New Tenant Resources! OHP Rent Assistance and Automatic Eviction Set Asides!

[u/HotlineAtSETA]

Hello everyone!

We wanted to let you know about two wonderful new resources for tenants!

Rent Assistance

Eligible individuals on the Oregon Health Plan can now easily request Rent Assistance! Click here for an overview of everything or check out their website which includes information in several languages!

Trillium members:
Information - https://www.trilliumohp.com/members/oregon-health-plan/Benefits-and-Services/health-related-social-needs-services.html
Online Form - https://uniteus.com/networks/oregon/get-help/trilliumchphrsn

Pacific Source members
https://pacificsource.com/medicaid/your-plan/HRSN-health-related-social-needs

Open Card Members
https://sharedsystems.dhsoha.state.or.us/DHSForms/Served/le736602.pdf

Eviction Set Asides

A new Oregon law clears past residential evictions that meet certain requirements. It applies to cases where the court entered a judgment after Jan. 1, 2014. Visit the Oregon Judicial Department website to see if your evictions were included!

https://www.courts.oregon.gov/forms/pages/evictionsetasides.aspx

Update on Eugene's $10 Application fee cap

"The City will not enforce the $10 cap on applicant screening charges until the Oregon Supreme Court issues a decision on the plaintiffs’ appeal of the Court of Appeals’ decision filed on November 6, 2024. The City has not implemented the application fee cap and is currently not requiring landlords to limit application fees to $10"

Read the full update from the City of Eugene

[u/International_Try899]

HRSN can take 2 months or so, just fyi. And they will deny you if you are looking for eviction intervention since it's bit intended for that

[u/International_Try899 → u/[deleted]]

Yup. Personal experience. And they take twice as long to process it to begin with than they tell you. And you will never get a hold of the organization in charge of processing your application at all (it's not trillium or PacificSource who are processing your application, they "assign" them to other smaller non profits where you live, and those people will never answer their phones.

[u/TheNachoSupreme → u/International_Try899]

That's the process for All-in funds rent assistance through lane county. I wasn't aware of trillium and Pacific source outsourcing this? That doesn't make sense to me since the hrsn funds come from a  Medicare waiver, which offered grants for organizations to build capacity into their own programs to handle increased administrative burdens