# What is a House? A House acts as your organization's account on Townhall, visible to anyone exploring the platform. [It's a dashboard the organization. ](#user-content-fn-1)[^1]Each house has it's social feed , proposal and discussion listings, delegation dashboard, treasury dashboard and house settings. It serves as an information source for users by specifying key activities and guidelines to interact in the community. ### How to access a House? Houses are listed upon arrival on [Townhall ](https://www.townhallgov.com/)and can be filtered by the organization or the ENS name used to create the house. You can access all details associated to the house by clicking on House of choice.

### Proposal search You can browse through all of House's proposals including active, pending, and closed proposals, as well as those created by core members.

### Joining a House If you want to have a quick access to certain Houses you can join them from the directory of all Houses or through the house's individual page by clicking the **Join** button. It will create a shortcut for the house on the right sidebar.

### [^1]: what does this mean?