If you are living in an emergency shelter, outdoors, in your car, or other homeless situation, then you are considered literally homeless.

Flowchart of HUD's Chronic Homeless Definition

If you are a household with children who is at risk of homelessness, please reach out to SVDP First Place Family Center.

Households experiencing homelessness can access any of the below agencies to be assessed for housing and services that are dedicated to the unhoused. A Front Door Assessment will allow homeless households to be placed on the Central Wait List for housing. Please contact a Front Door Agency for an assessment.
 

Printable Front Door Assessors List.pdf

At risk of becoming homeless?

If you are currently housed, but are at risk of homelessness, homelessness prevention assistance may be accessed through our Community Service Centers.

Community Service Centers:

• Catholic Community Services, Eugene/Springfield – call their intake line 541-345-3628
• Community Sharing (Cottage Grove): 541-942-2176
• Siuslaw Outreach Services (Florence): 541-997-2816
• For Families with Children – St. Vincent de Paul First Place Family Center: 541-342-7728
• For Youth – Looking Glass: 541-686-4310
• ShelterCare also has private resources: 541-689-3785

What happens at a Front Door Agency?

Clients experiencing homelessness will sit down with a skilled assessor and take a Front Door Assessment. The purpose of the assessment is to triage an individual or family’s needs and housing history in a fair and objective manner. Through this assessment, eligible homeless households will be placed on the Central Wait List for housing. Eventually the information collected will help match the clients to the right housing program.

Note: The Central Wait List does not include all housing resources.  We encourage you to get on as many lists as possible to increase your chances of finding housing. Housing is not guaranteed on any list.

Other housing options include:

Homes for Good

• Overview of housing options

• Section 8

St. Vincent de Paul

• Overview of affordable housing options

• Housing waitlist – opens periodically

When a housing program has a vacancy, they contact Lane County Coordinated Entry staff. Some housing programs have different eligibility criteria. County staff will review the client’s information and match the right client from the Central Wait List to the right vacancy.  A housing case manager will contact the client when they have been referred to a housing program.

Who pulls from the Central Wait List?

Housing providers listed below pull names from the list to fill vacancies.