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HOUSING

Harvard Housing
Real Estate Assistance

Housing Locations
Housing Websites
Host Family

Harvard Housing Office

7 Holyoke Street, Cambridge
Phone: 617-495-3377 or 800-252-5020

Longwood Medical Area, Vanderbilt Hall
Phone: 617-432-1630 or visit: http://www.hms.harvard.edu/operations/vh/

E-mail: hhousing@harvard.edu
Harvard Real Estate Services: http://www.hres.harvard.edu/rre.htm

The Harvard Housing Office maintains current information on housing owned by the University and off campus housing in the Cambridge/Boston area. These services are available to students, faculty, post-docs, and employees of Harvard University.

Harvard Affiliated Housing is available to full time Harvard graduate students, faculty members, post-doctoral fellows, and employees. Affiliated Housing is on a lottery basis. For more information click on: http://www.hres.harvard.edu/RRE/NewWeb/Brochure/Affiliated/about.htm

Harvard@Trilogy is an ideal location for Harvard Medical School graduate students, faculty, employees and post-doctoral fellows. Please visit: https://shs.harvard.edu/voyager/shexternal/forms/ to learn more about this new complex and how to apply.

The Harvard Housing Office maintains both physical listings and an online database for rental, sublet, and roommate opportunities. Please visit: http://hreslandlord.roomateclick.com/

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Real Estate Assistance Program

Location: 10 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge
Phone: 617-495-8840

The Harvard Real Estate Services offers individual real estate counseling for benefits eligible faculty and staff and relocation assistance to faculty.

We recommend if you are relocating to this area in September that you begin your search for housing in July. Given the number of Universities and Colleges in the greater Boston area, apartments are at a premium.

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Locations

The following areas are convenient to Harvard Medical School with easy access to public transportation:

  • Boston Area: Back Bay, Brighton, Fenway, Jamaica Plain, Mission Hill, North End, and South End.
  • Brookline Area: Brookline Village, Cleveland Circle, Coolidge Corner, and Chestnut Hill.
  • Across the Charles River: Cambridge, Arlington, Belmont, Somerville and Watertown.
  • West of the City: Newton Centre, Newton Highlands, Newtonville, Waban, West Newton, Needham, Natick and Framingham.
  • South of the City: Braintree and Quincy.

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Housing Websites

Additional website listings for housing:

VISITING FELLOWS

Vanderbilt Hall is a residence hall for Harvard Medical School, the School of Dental Medicine and the Division of Medical Sciences. It also houses visiting scholars and students from other universities and colleges. Please check their website for more information: http://www.hms.harvard.edu/operations/vh

HOST FAMILY PROGRAM

Mrs. Joan Clouse Cohen, Director
At Home in Boston
15 Cedar Road
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Phone: 617-244-6444
Fax: 617-738-0566

A number of our post-docs and visiting fellows have had very successful stays with "At Home in Boston". This program includes a private bedroom, free laundry, bed and bath linens, easy, direct commute to the medical school and kitchen privileges. If you are interested, please contact Mrs. Clouse.

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