OOP (Ounce of Prevention)

Client Management Page
On-Time Payment Tracking
Payment History

Inspiration

Our original thought process was around how to provide tenants resources to prevent eviction, and we realized that landlords actually have the most motivation to avoid evicting tenants.

What it does

Provides CoC, landlords, and at risk tenants with the resources to prevent homelessness before its starts. Our app will take over the payments and act as a cosigner on the lease to prevent evictions, meanwhile connecting CoC’s with at risk clients.

How we built it

We created a portal for CoC members to work with tenants and a dashboard for tenants to manage their payments.

Challenges we ran into

Incentives for tenants to use the app and pay back the rent the app helped pay. There are also legal issues the app needs to sort out before arriving on the market.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We’re proud to have identified a preventative solution to homelessness which will help shut off the flow of new homeless people.

What we learned

The biggest takeaway was how unbeneficial evictions are to all parties involved, especially landlords and the inherent motivation they have to avoid evictions, which aligns exactly with the tenant’s needs.

What's next for OOP

Our immediate next step would be to expand our system to include the existing homeless population in addition to the data we collect on at-risk population.