Interest-Based Housing is offered to all incoming students.
Through Interest-Based Housing, students explore identity, learn about challenges facing marginalized groups on campus, and create friendships and community based in healing and allyship. You can apply for interest-based housing within the Housing Portal when you apply for on campus housing.
Interest-based housing assignments could change year over year to accomodate enrollment fluctuations and community desires.
In addition to the Language Houses, Reed currently offers these interest-based housing options:
Garden House
Garden House residents have full access to the surrounding garden and are encouraged to participate in garden upkeep.
Students of Color Community
This community is for students who identify as, strongly resonate with, or have a strong interest in understanding the identities and lived experiences of students of color at Reed. Students will have the opportunity to grow community with each other and support one another throughout the academic year. Students will decide as a collective how else they want to experience community together - this could be through shared meals, shared housing items, or hosting events. Each year, the community will decide how they want to shape their communal experience in conjunction with their house advisor and area coordinator.
Queer Collective
This community is for students who identify as (however individually defined), strongly resonate with, or have a strong interest in understanding the identities and lived experiences of queer students at Reed. Community members will be able to discuss regularly how queer identities may be supported, neglected, affirmed, celebrated and/or impacted during your first year at Reed. While all housing at Reed is gender inclusive, the Queer Collective is an additional space to engage in discussion, support, community and overall live in a safe space that encourages full expression of gender identity. Students will decide as a community how they want to engage with each other and this living option, this could be through projects, art, shared meals, or weekly discussions. Each year, the community will decide how they want to shape their communal experience in conjunction with their house advisor and area coordinator.