It is our goal to make HLS Housing safe, comfortable, and accessible to all, regardless of abilities, gender, or religious affiliation. Please follow the instructions for the housing accommodation support you need.
Medical or Disability Accommodation Requests
If you have any specific housing needs based on a disability or medical need, please contact the HLS Accessibility Services Resources.
To ensure a timely review of documentation and secure appropriate accommodations consider submitting all required documentation well in advance of the HLS Housing application deadline.
Approved accommodations will be communicated to HLS Housing. Please note, due to capacity limitations, we cannot guarantee on-campus housing to all students and consider all requests on a case-by-case basis.
Religious Accommodation Requests
If you have any specific housing needs based on your religion, please complete this form well in advance of the housing application deadline: Download Housing Accommodation Request Form
The form can be submitted to:
Tara Townsend, Assistant Director of Student Affairs
Harvard Law School
Dean of Students Office, WCC-3039
1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 3039
Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: ttownsend@law.harvard.edu
Phone: 617-495-1880
Fax: 617-496-0544
All requests will be reviewed by the Dean of Students Office. All requests and supporting documentation are kept confidentially within the Dean of Students Office. Please note that all requests are considered on a case-by-case basis based on current housing availability.
To pursue on-campus housing, please submit the HLS Housing Application and participate in Room Selection. If you are able to select an available space and sign your Room License Agreement, you will be guaranteed on-campus housing.
Since we are unable to guarantee all students on-campus housing, it is important that you reserve a room even if there is not one available that meets your needs. Should you reserve a space that does not meet your needs, please contact the Dean of Students Office. The Dean of Students Office will do its best to reassign you to a space that better meets your needs.
Gender-Related Accommodation Requests
HLS Housing offers several options for students seeking housing based on gender identity. Gender-neutral bathrooms are available in the following residences:
Gropius Complex:
- Story Hall: 2nd floor, 4th floor
- Shaw Hall: 1st floor
- Ames Hall: 2nd floor
- Dane Hall: 3rd floor
Hastings Hall:
- Hastings Entry 1: 1st floor, 4th floor
- Hastings Entry 2: 1st floor, 4th floor
- Hastings Entry 3: 1st floor, 4th floor
- Hastings Entry 4: 1st floor, 4th floor
- Hastings Entry 5: 1st floor, 4th floor
*Please keep in mind that all of our floors in Hastings and most of our floors in Gropius are co-ed. It is common for a resident’s preferred bathroom to be located on an adjacent floor.
To pursue on-campus housing, please submit the HLS Housing Application and participate in Room Selection. If you are able to select an available space and sign your Room License Agreement, you will be guaranteed on-campus housing. Since we are unable to guarantee all students on-campus housing, it is important that you reserve a room even if there is not one available that meets your needs. Should you reserve a space that does not meet your needs, please contact the Dean of Students Office. The Dean of Students Office will do its best to reassign you to a space that better meets your needs.
If you have a housing accommodation request other than access to an all-gender bathroom, please complete the form below well in advance of the housing application deadline:
Download Housing Accommodation Request Form
The form can be submitted to:
Tara Townsend, Assistant Director of Student Affairs
Harvard Law School
Dean of Students Office, WCC-3039
1585 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 3039
Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: ttownsend@law.harvard.edu
Phone: 617-495-1880
Fax: 617-496-0544
All requests will be reviewed by the Dean of Students Office. All requests and supporting documentation are kept confidentially within the Dean of Students Office. Please note that all requests are considered on a case-by-case basis based on current housing availability.
For Harvard University Housing (HUH) or off-campus living options, visit the Living in Cambridge page.