Where do DC post-grads find housing?

[Anonymous]

DD is moving back to DC after graduating next month. Plan at first is to live at home in the suburbs but she wants to move into the district once she gets a job/has money. None of her school friends are living in dc. She really wants community and roommates, especially other young post-grads. Where does one find people to live with? Are there popular Facebook groups or instagram pages for DC? Back in my day, group houses posted rooms in the newspaper....

[Anonymous]

Facebook and craigslist. Its not that sketchy, just look for rooms that have market rates and look at them live / meet the roommates before committing

[Anonymous]

My DS moved back home after graduation. When he was ready to move out, he started by asking everyone he knew if they knew of anyone looking for roommates. He ended up living with two guys who had gone to college with DS’s best friend from high school and a “random” guy they connected with on a Facebook housing page. My DS was really nervous about living with someone he had never met (he had the other two guys a couple of times) but it’s worked out.

[Anonymous]

Friends of friends....

[Anonymous]

Facebook has a bunch of roommate pages for DC and surrounding areas.

[Anonymous]

Just get a small studio.

[Anonymous]

There are Facebook pages on this. Have your kid poke around. There are many, many recent grads moving here and knowing no one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just get a small studio.

That is way more expensive than sharing a place with roommates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just get a small studio.

That is way more expensive than sharing a place with roommates.

Yes. Unless you are in some outlier high paying industry a small studio is what you graduate into after a few years of working.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD is moving back to DC after graduating next month. Plan at first is to live at home in the suburbs but she wants to move into the district once she gets a job/has money. None of her school friends are living in dc. She really wants community and roommates, especially other young post-grads. Where does one find people to live with? Are there popular Facebook groups or instagram pages for DC? Back in my day, group houses posted rooms in the newspaper....

I've see Facebook roommates groups. Arlington is very popular for young post-grads.

[Anonymous]

Sharing a row house apartment tends to be the cheapest, a lot of young people in NOMA, Columbia Heights, Bloomingdale, Petworth , and other central neighborhoods.

[Anonymous]

Friends of friends and Facebook groups (check alumni pages) and neighborhood listservs.

[Anonymous]

Not with help from their Mommies, that’s for sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not with help from their Mommies, that’s for sure.

mean.

[Anonymous]

Group home slots are way harder to find now then pre pandemic and aren’t cheaper then a small bare bones studio. Plus utility bills run 2-300 a person from what I hear in this day and age. I’d suggest living at home to save a buffer for a year or so then moving out to a rent controlled building in the Connecticut ave corridor or Columbia Heights and getting a studio. Much better value and close to transit, young people, nightlife ect

Either way you’re looking at ~2k a month all in and I really think you need to be making right at 6 figures to live in the area without parent help. I’m in my late 20s and it wasn’t this competitive pre covid!