{"id":1545,"date":"2013-09-19T19:02:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T19:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/?page_id=1545"},"modified":"2025-11-18T15:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:02:12","slug":"renewal-procedures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/index.php\/renewal-procedures\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewal Procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">The USC Housing Renewal (UHR) program is designed to assist current residents in getting their housing for the upcoming year. Participating in UHR gives residents priority for assignments over non-resident students and new transfers, as long as they follow all UHR procedures and meet all deadlines.<\/p>\n<p>Freshmen currently living in university housing who comply with all UHR deadlines and procedures will have first priority for housing in their sophomore year.<\/p>\n<p>UHR takes place almost entirely online. Applications are submitted on our <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/portal\">online portal<\/a>\u00a0during a designated period in January each year. <em>Continuing residents must apply during this period in order to participate in UHR.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>USC Housing Renewal\u2019s categories take into consideration the type of housing that participants are looking for, as well as their current assignments and class standing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most students will participate in our General Lottery, going online at their lottery-determined selection time to select from available housing spaces.<\/li>\n<li>Students who wish to live in one of our Living Learning Communities (LLC) may select the Living Learning Community category.<\/li>\n<li>The Current Space Renewal category is for graduate and family housing residents who want to return to their exact same building and room type assignment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Searching for and requesting roommates is easy using our online tools. Assignment and contracting are also done online, at times specified in each category.<\/p>\n<p>After assignments in the General Lottery are completed, students will have the opportunity to cancel their contracts by defined deadlines and\u00a0may request reassignment.<\/p>\n<p>UHR participants who do not have a confirmed contract at the end of the General Lottery and still want university housing may sign up for the UHR Wait List, and be offered space as housing becomes available..<\/p>\n<p>More complete information about renewal procedures and timelines can be found in ou<span style=\"color: #000000;\">r UHR brochure<strong>,<\/strong> <\/span>which will be available on this website beginning in early January.<\/p>\n<p>Housing rents change every year. The rental rates for the upcoming academic year are available on our website by the time the UHR application opens each January.<\/p>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-7\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-7 application-and-assignments-timeline\">\n<caption class=\"tablepress-table-caption tablepress-table-caption-id-7\">USC Housing Renewal Timeline<\/caption>\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th colspan=\"2\" class=\"column-1\">USC Housing Renewal 2026 - 2027 Timeline<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-striping\">\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">January 20<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Online application period for current residents opens<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">January 23<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Deadline to clear registration holds<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">January 23<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Online application deadline<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">February 6<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Living Learning Community and Graduate Current Space Renewal contracting time notification<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">February 9 - 12<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Living Learning Community and Graduate and Family Current Space Renewal contracting period<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">February 13<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">General Lottery selection time notification<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">February 17 - 26<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">General Lottery period assignment and contracting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">March 2 - 11<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">UHR Wait List sign-up period<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-10\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">March 6<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Last day to cancel confirmed contracts without penalty<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-11\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">March 9<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Reassignment requests accepted<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-12\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">May 1<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Last day to cancel confirmed contracts with loss of confirmation payment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USC Housing Renewal (UHR) program is designed to assist current residents in getting their housing for the upcoming year. Participating in UHR gives residents priority for assignments over non-resident students and new transfers, as long as they follow all UHR procedures and meet all deadlines. Freshmen currently living in university housing who comply with&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/index.php\/renewal-procedures\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Renewal Procedures\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":93,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-apply.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1545","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-application-procedures-returning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80793,"href":"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1545\/revisions\/80793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.uschousing.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}