Eligibility Requirements

Harvard graduate students, faculty, and employees who meet the following conditions are eligible to apply for Harvard Affiliated Housing:

Graduate Students

Those who are full-time, registered, tuition-paying, term-billed Harvard degree candidates. Harvard alumni, Harvard Extension School students, and visiting undergraduates are not eligible to live in Affiliated Housing.

  • If applying March 2007 - February 2008, this affiliation must be valid through the end of the 2008 academic year.
  • If applying March 2008 - February 2009, this affiliation must be valid through the end of the 2009 academic year.

Faculty and Employees

Those who are employed full time, 35 or 40 hours per week, who receive a Harvard University paycheck, and who receive full University benefits.

Visiting faculty, visiting scholars, visiting fellows, and non-benefits-eligible postdoctoral fellows are eligible to apply for Affiliated Housing with a Harvard University Departmental Guarantee Letter. Documentation must be submitted in order for your application to be approved.

  • If applying March 2007 - February 2008, this affiliation must be valid through June 30, 2008.
  • If applying March 2008 - February 2009, this affiliation must be valid through June 20, 2009.

If you have questions regarding your eligibility status, please contact us.

Nonaffiliated Spouses/Domestic Partners

A nonaffiliated spouse/domestic partner may only live in Harvard Affiliated Housing with an eligible affiliate whose name is on the lease. A nonaffiliated spouse/domestic partner is not eligible to sign or to be named as a tenant on a Affiliated Housing Lease and may not retain possession of an Affiliated Housing apartment if the affiliated tenant vacates the apartment.

A domestic partnership is a long-term relationship with an exclusive mutual commitment similar to that of marriage. Both parties must be at least 18 years of age, share joint responsibility for their common welfare, be financially interdependent, and in a relationship of mutual support and caring.