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All of the details you need to know to call Occidental “home”!

The Residential Education and Housing Services (REHS) department is dedicated to making sure that your residential stay at Occidental is safe, comfortable, and enriching. REHS utilizes a software program called eRezlife to manage housing. eRezlife allows you to complete your housing application, indicate roommate preferences, and review additional resources and bulletins pertaining to housing at Oxy. 

Disability accommodations

If you require housing accommodations due to a documented medical or psychiatric disability, you should complete that step next. Please review the Housing Accommodations Policy on the Disability Services website and then submit the disability accommodation request form found at the bottom of that page. Spring transfer students: stay tuned for the deadline to apply for housing accommodations. Please note that while Disability Services accepts housing accommodation requests throughout the year, any student who is approved after the deadline will be added to the waitlist, and will be placed whenever space becomes available.

Room and roommate(s) assignments

You can expect to receive your room assignment and roommate(s) information via email directly from REHS in early January.

Prepare to move in

After all that is done, you’ll be ready to prepare for move-in day. Consult our amenities guide (when it becomes available) so that you know what is offered in the residence halls and to start making a list of what you can bring and what you shouldn’t bring to campus. Also, check out our move-in guide, available at the beginning of June, for more information about how to plan for moving into campus. You can also read up on these frequently asked questions for housing.

Questions?

If you have any additional questions about housing, please contact REHS at resed@oxy.edu or (323) 259-2531.

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