Off-Campus Private Housing
The Community Living Program (CLP) has been developed to support students, faculty, and staff as they seek housing in the Rochester community. The CLP is in the Office for Residential Life, 020 Gates, Susan B. Anthony Halls.
CLP provides a variety of referral and apartment-hunting services for members of the University who cannot be accommodated in University housing or who prefer to live elsewhere in the community. Many landlords in the Rochester community use CLP as their exclusive means of advertising; as a result, our directory contains many listings that cannot be found elsewhere. http://ochousing.reslife.rochester.edu
CLP has a comprehensive computerized index of apartments, rooms, and homes for rent, including both advertised offerings and listings placed with the office particularly for University people. CLP maintains a file of those who wish to share an apartment. The office has locator maps, local bus schedules, and telephones for inquiring about apartments and houses for rent. The CLP staff can often provide helpful hints about community services and neighborhoods and has information about lease agreements and other matters of concern to renters.
With respect to these non-University facilities, CLP serves as a source of information and referral, but it does not function as a real estate agent or rental agent. The individual renter must make the choice of quarters and business arrangements independently.
It is not advisable nor often possible to select a private accommodation and agree on lease terms without an inperson visit. Also, the most desirable accommodations are often rented by mid-August. Therefore, if you elect to seek private housing or if you have not received a University apartment offer to lease three weeks prior to your desired date of occupancy, we suggest you arrange to come to Rochester one to two weeks prior to the start of your academic program. A wider range of private housing options is available if you commute to and from the University by car or city bus. A few nearby neighborhoods are serviced by University buses. If you own a private vehicle and wish to use University parking facilities, you must obtain a parking permit and pay the required parking fees (www.rochester.edu/parking).