Housing guides
Finding and renting a place near the research campuses.
Housing near NIST Gaithersburg for guest researchers
Neighborhoods, commute options, and what to expect on rent around the Gaithersburg campus.
For: Guest researchers and associates at NIST GaithersburgRead guide →HousingHousing near NIH Bethesda for visiting fellows
Where fellows and postbacs live around the Bethesda campus, and how to commute car-free.
For: Visiting fellows, postbacs, and postdocs at NIHRead guide →HousingNIH housing list & SAMSList alternatives near Bethesda
An independent guide to finding furnished rooms, sublets, and short-term housing near NIH in Bethesda — a practical alternative for fellows and postdocs when the old NIH SAMSList isn't active for you.
For: NIH postdocs, fellows, postbacs, and visiting researchers looking for housingRead guide →HousingDC-area housing for visiting scholars
Living car-free in the District: neighborhoods, transit, and short-term options for scholars.
For: Visiting scholars and archive/library researchers in DCRead guide →HousingRenting without U.S. credit history
How international researchers can secure a lease without a U.S. credit score.
For: International researchers and first-time U.S. rentersRead guide →HousingShort-term furnished housing near DC research campuses
Where to look for furnished short-term rentals near the campuses, and what to confirm before you commit.
For: Anyone booking a 1–6 month furnished stayRead guide →HousingBasement apartment checklist for visiting researchers
Basement units are common and affordable here — here's what to inspect first.
For: Renters considering a basement or in-law unitRead guide →HousingHow to evaluate a room rental near a research campus
A practical, step-by-step way for visiting researchers to judge a room or sublet near a research hub before committing — what to ask, what to check, and how to stay safe.
For: Visiting researchers, postdocs, fellows, and interns comparing roomsRead guide →HousingHousing near UMB and Baltimore campuses
Where visiting researchers live around the University of Maryland, Baltimore — neighborhoods, transit, and what to expect on rent.
For: Visiting researchers, fellows, and trainees at UMB and Baltimore-area campusesRead guide →HousingHousing near Virginia Tech / Blacksburg for visiting researchers
Short-term housing for visiting researchers, scholars, postdocs, and interns near Virginia Tech in Blacksburg — what to ask before renting, how the commute works in a small college town, and where to start looking.
For: Visiting scholars, J-1 researchers, postdocs, fellows, and interns near Virginia TechRead guide →HousingFederal Science Corridor housing guide
How to choose between NIH, NIST, and the I-270 corridor when you can live anywhere along the Red Line — by commute, budget, and lifestyle.
For: Researchers who can choose anywhere along the Maryland science corridorRead guide →HousingShort-term housing near NIH, NIST, and DC research campuses
The main short-term housing options for visiting researchers — sublets, shared houses, aparthotels, and corporate housing — and which fits each campus.
For: Researchers who need 1–9 months of housing near a campusRead guide →HousingRoommate checklist for visiting researchers
What to sort out before moving in with roommates during a research stay — money, space, schedules, and an easy exit.
For: Researchers joining or forming a shared householdRead guide →HousingQuestions to ask before renting a basement apartment
The exact questions to ask a landlord before taking a basement or in-law unit — light, moisture, utilities, access, and legality.
For: Renters considering a basement or in-law unitRead guide →HousingHousing near GWU / Foggy Bottom for visiting researchers and fellows
Where visiting researchers, fellows, and trainees live around George Washington University and Foggy Bottom — neighborhoods, commute, and what to expect on rent.
For: Visiting researchers, fellows, postdocs, and trainees at GWURead guide →HousingDC university visiting scholar housing tips
Practical housing tips for visiting scholars at DC universities — how to find a short-term place near campus, go car-free, and avoid the common pitfalls.
For: Visiting scholars and researchers at DC-area universitiesRead guide →HousingUMD off-campus housing near College Park: rooms, sublets and short-term stays
An independent guide to off-campus rooms, sublets, and short-term housing near the University of Maryland, College Park — what UMD's official off-campus housing (OCH) database covers, where it stops for stays shorter than a year, and how visiting scholars, postdocs, fellows, grad students and research interns fill the gap.
For: Visiting scholars, postdocs, fellows, grad and master's students, research interns, and other short-term academic visitors at UMD College ParkRead guide →HousingHousing near NASA Goddard / Greenbelt for researchers and interns
Where NASA Postdoctoral Program fellows, interns, and visiting researchers live around the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt — neighborhoods, commute, and rent.
For: NASA Goddard postdocs, interns, cooperative researchers, and contractorsRead guide →HousingHousing near USDA Beltsville / ARS for visiting scientists
Where ARS postdocs, ORISE fellows, and visiting scientists live around the USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center — neighborhoods, commute, and rent.
For: USDA ARS postdocs, ORISE fellows, research associates, and visiting scientistsRead guide →HousingGWU Foggy Bottom housing for visiting scholars, fellows and graduate students
Independent housing guidance for visiting scholars, fellows, postdocs, graduate and master's students, and research interns at George Washington University — what is realistic near Foggy Bottom on an appointment-length stay, and why a good Metro connection usually beats living beside the campus gate.
For: Visiting scholars, fellows, postdocs, exchange students, grad students, and short-term visitors at GWURead guide →HousingGeorgetown visiting researcher housing: living near a campus with no Metro stop
Independent housing guidance for visiting researchers and fellows at Georgetown University — how to plan a commute to a campus that has no Metro station of its own, and where furnished rooms and sublets turn up.
For: Visiting researchers, fellows, postdocs, grad students, and short-term academic visitors at GeorgetownRead guide →HousingAmerican University visiting scholar housing across upper Northwest DC
Independent housing guidance for visiting scholars and fellows at American University — Red Line and bus options across upper Northwest DC and into the Maryland border, and where short-term rooms turn up.
For: Visiting scholars, fellows, postdocs, exchange students, and short-term academic visitors at American UniversityRead guide →HousingNIST Gaithersburg researcher housing, including arriving without U.S. credit
Independent housing guidance for guest researchers and associates at NIST Gaithersburg — the car-versus-transit tradeoff up the I-270 corridor, and a practical path to renting when you arrive without U.S. credit history.
For: Guest researchers, associates, postdocs, and international visiting scientists at NIST GaithersburgRead guide →HousingVisiting scholar housing in New York City: which paths you can actually use
Most institution-run housing in New York excludes people with "visiting" titles, and the private market screens on income and U.S. credit you may not have. Here is the map of what is left, and how to work out which route fits your appointment.
For: Visiting scholars, visiting researchers and visiting faculty with an appointment in New York CityRead guide →HousingRenting in New York City without U.S. credit history
The 40-times-rent screen, the guarantor who has to earn 80 to 100 times the rent, and what actually works instead when you have just arrived from abroad on a stipend.
For: International researchers, postdocs and students renting in New York for the first timeRead guide →HousingShort-term housing in New York City and the 30-day rule
Why renting a whole apartment for three weeks is mostly unlawful in New York, what a legal hosted stay looks like, and why stretching a booking to 30 days often costs less and puts you on firmer ground.
For: Researchers visiting New York for less than a few months, and anyone booking before they arriveRead guide →HousingSummer research housing in New York City
Summer is the one season when New York institutions open beds to outsiders — including people with no university affiliation at all. Here is what opens, roughly when, and why applying in March matters more than searching in June.
For: Summer interns, visiting summer researchers, and students on short research placements in New YorkRead guide →HousingPostdoc housing near Rockefeller, Weill Cornell and Memorial Sloan Kettering
Three institutions within a few blocks on York Avenue, each with its own housing office, its own hard rules, and most of its research postdocs housed across the river on Roosevelt Island. What to do, and in what order.
For: Incoming postdocs, research fellows and visiting scientists on the Upper East Side biomedical corridorRead guide →HousingColumbia visiting scholar housing: what you are and are not eligible for
Columbia says visiting titles are not eligible for university housing — but the line is drawn by payroll title, not by the work, and there are three campuses running different systems. What that means in practice.
For: Visiting scholars, postdocs and researchers with a Columbia appointment on any of its three campusesRead guide →HousingNYU visiting researcher housing: Washington Square, Kips Bay and what you can apply for
NYU excludes visiting scholars from faculty housing, reserves its visiting-academic apartments for faculty via the host department, and runs two summer programmes open to almost anyone. Sorting out which of those applies to you.
For: Visiting researchers, postdocs and graduate students arriving at NYU or NYU Langone HealthRead guide →HousingVisiting researcher housing in Washington DC
Almost every named housing option in the capital has an eligibility gate, and most people find it after making plans. What each route actually requires.
For: Researchers, fellows, postdocs and graduate students arriving anywhere in the DC metropolitan areaRead guide →HousingRenting in DC, Maryland or Virginia: what actually differs
Three sets of rules inside one commute. Deposits, application fees, lease terms, rent control and — the big one — whether you are allowed to sublet.
For: Anyone choosing between an address in the District, suburban Maryland or Northern VirginiaRead guide →HousingNorthern Virginia researcher housing: NSF, Virginia Tech, George Mason
Several Virginia research destinations look close together on a map and are not. Which is which, and what Virginia tenancy law changes for you.
For: Researchers, rotators and graduate students based in Alexandria, Arlington or FairfaxRead guide →HousingChildren's National researcher housing: which campus you report to
Children's National works in two places three miles apart, and neither Irving Street hospital is walkable from a Metro station.
For: Clinical and biomedical research fellows, postdocs and graduate students in north-central WashingtonRead guide →Looking for something specific? Browse all guides, browse housing, or suggest a guide.