Student Life

Housing Assistance

College of San Mateo does not offer on-campus housing in the form of dormitories or apartments. However, the Office of Student Life & Leadership Development does maintain an up-to-date list of off-campus community housing. This housing is usually in the form of rooms in private homes, but shared houses and/or apartments are sometimes available.

Housing Posting

If you have a room or other form of housing available, please contact us at (650) 574-6141. You can also submit your housing listing using our Online Housing Posting Form. Ads are posted online, and remain posted for at least a month. When your housing is rented, please contact us by phone or at csmstudentlife@smccd.edu so that we may remove it.

Available Housing

The Office of Student Life maintains a list of available housing. Listings are updated once a week (usually on Mondays) and are removed after one month.

Housing Resources

Besides the housing listings maintained by the CSM Office of Student Life, there are many resources that can assist in finding housing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Below are several web sites, newspapers, and other resources that provide housing ads and listings.

• Craigslist
  The equivalent of an online flea market, Craigslist has a wide variety of housing available in and around the Peninsula.
• San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com
  The San Francisco Chronicle and its online site, SFGate.com, provide the most comprehensive listing of newspaper classified ads in the Bay Area.
• San Jose Mercury News / BayArea.com
  The San Jose Mercury News and its online site, BayArea.com, are focused mainly on the South Bay, but also have information about housing opportunities in San Mateo County.
• San Mateo County Times
  The San Mateo County Times focuses primarily on San Mateo County and is a good resource for those looking for housing on the Peninsula and in the East Bay.
• San Mateo Daily Journal
  The San Mateo Daily Journal is one of two daily papers that have started publishing in San Mateo.
• San Mateo Daily News
  The San Mateo Daily News is the other daily paper in San Mateo, and is part of the group that also publishes daily newspapers in Palo Alto, Redwood City, Burlingame, and Los Gatos.