Affinity Living Registration Process
2024-2025 Affinity Housing Registration
Affinity living is a great opportunity for students with shared interests or identities to live with one another in District House in dedicated 16 or 20 person community suites.
Affinity suites for the 2024-2025 year are formed in one of three methods. If interested in exploring affinity living, follow guidance most relevant to you:
Current Affinity Suites Interested in Continuing the Affinity
Campus Living & Residential Education welcomes current 2023-2024 academic year affinities to express interest in continuing the suite going into fall 2024.
Steps to Take
If interested in continuing your suite going into Fall 2024, contact District House Community Coordinators Joy Flournoy ([email protected]) and Rai Baltimore ([email protected]).
Note: continuing affinity suites from year-to-year is not guaranteed and CLRE will determine if an interested affinity suite may continue into future years.
New Affinity Suites Formed by Campus Living & Residential Education
Based on interest expressed from students, starting in the 2024-2025 academic year, Campus Living & Residential Education is forming four new affinity suites that students may opt-into joining:
Sober Living: an affinity suite where residents agree to a living environment that does not include the presence or use of alcohol or other drugs, where sober living can be explored and celebrated
LGBTQIA+: an affinity suite for students who hold lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, asexual, and more (LGBTQIA+) identities, where identities can be affirmed and celebrated
International Students: an affinity suite for students coming to GW from outside of the United States, where cultures can be celebrated and connections can form to navigate life at GW.
Asian and Pacific Islander: an affinity suite for students who hold an Asian or Pacific Islander identity, where identity and culture can be affirmed and celebrated
Steps to Take
During General Housing Registration (February 28 - March 20), students will have the opportunity to express interest in one of the four affinity living opportunities. Expressing interest does not guarantee placement in the affinity suite. Students will learn of any potential affinity placement when housing assignments are released on Thursday, April 4.
Note: roommate groups are welcome to indicate affinity interest
New Affinity Groups Self-Created By Students
Campus Living & Residential Education welcomes rising 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th year students to form self-created groups to explore affinity living. Groups must have some shared interest or identity to be eligible for affinity living.
Steps to Take
If interested in creating an affinity suite group, complete the following 2024-2025 Affinity Living application:
Have questions about affinity living or the application for new affinity groups? Reach out to District House Community Coordinators Joy Flournoy ([email protected]) and Rai Baltimore ([email protected]).
Note on Housing Registration and Affinity Living
- Affinity suites are only available for the fall and spring semesters, and are not available for summer housing periods.
- All students who will live in a District House affinity suite must complete housing registration via the GW Home portal.
- Room and Roommate Assignments
- Student-Formed and -Led Affinities: all room assignments in student-formed and -led affinity suites are determined by the leader of the affinity
- CLRE-Formed Affinities: all room assignments in affinity suites formed by Campus Living & Residential Education (Sober Living, LGBTQIA+, International Student, Asian and Pacific Islander) will be made by CLRE, using roommate matching information provided by students during housing registration. CLRE reserves the right to adjust room assignments and if necessary, remove a student from an affinity suite housing assignment if they do not align with the stated goals of that affinity.
- While there is no deadline for a new self-formed group of students to inform CLRE of interest in creating an affinity suite, the longer a group waits, the less likely there is for affinity suites to be available. CLRE typically fills all affinity suite spaces by mid-July.