Settle in faster during your research stay.

NIST Gaithersburg

Housing and community for guest researchers, associates, NRC postdocs, and visiting scientists assigned to the NIST Gaithersburg campus. The practical starting point: NIST's Foreign Guest Researcher Program page and its campus-access page carry no housing or lodging guidance at all, and that programme page states that most of your funding will need to come from a sponsoring company or institution — so an incoming guest researcher is arranging housing alone, often on someone else's budget. The campus does run a shuttle from Shady Grove Metro, which widens where you can realistically live. Independent community resource — not affiliated with or endorsed by NIST or the Department of Commerce.

NIH Bethesda

Housing, moving sales, and community for visiting fellows, postbacs, postdocs and visiting scientists around the NIH Bethesda campus. Start here with the fact that decides most plans: NIH's own training office states, in those words, that NIH does not provide housing for fellows — and FAES, the NIH-adjacent option that page points to, publishes eligibility limited to people enrolled in an NIH stipend-paid fellowship or scholarship programme who hold an NIH badge, with federal employees, contractors and special volunteers stated to be ineligible, and a waitlist besides. If that is not you, the Bethesda private market is the answer, and this hub is about making that survivable. Independent community resource — not affiliated with or endorsed by NIH, HHS, or FAES.

Montgomery County Federal Science Corridor

The Montgomery County science corridor for visitors who move between campuses rather than living beside one: FDA White Oak and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research at Forest Glen, plus the Red Line and I-270 links to NIH Bethesda and NIST Gaithersburg. If you are assigned to one specific campus, start with that campus's own hub — this page is for choosing between them and for the commutes that cross them.

DC Visiting Scholars

For visiting scholars, fellows, and archive researchers based in the District and inner suburbs.

George Washington University / Foggy Bottom

Housing, moving sales, and community for visiting researchers, fellows, and trainees around the George Washington University campus in Foggy Bottom. Independent community resource — not affiliated with GWU.

Georgetown / Main Campus

Housing, moving sales, and community for visiting researchers, fellows, postdocs, and scholars near the Georgetown University Main Campus in northwest DC. Independent community resource — not affiliated with or endorsed by Georgetown University.

Rooms and sublets near the Bethesda campus — a practical stand-in when the old NIH SAMSList isn't active for you.

Off-campus rooms and short-term housing near College Park, beyond the official listings.

Why a good Metro link often beats living right beside the campus gate — and where to look.

Planning a commute to a campus with no Metro stop of its own.

The Red Line corridor through upper Northwest DC and into the Maryland border.

The car-vs-transit tradeoff up I-270, plus renting without U.S. credit history.