What is OCHA?

OCHA exists to make local housing easier to understand before someone signs a lease. The mission is to help renters see whether a place, landlord, block, and neighborhood fit their real life, not only whether a unit is available.

Use OCHA when you want more than a listing card. You can save housing preferences, compare options, learn about neighborhoods, ask housing questions, and keep track of details that usually get scattered across searches, messages, and word of mouth.

OCHA is free for renters to use. A low-cost paid membership can open access to additional tools, benefits, and community features that help you get more out of the OCHA experience.

Local businesses, neighborhood groups, campus organizations, and civic partners can help by sharing trusted information, helping renters discover OCHA, sponsoring public-interest work, or contributing local knowledge that makes housing decisions less opaque.