Rent Is So High, New Yorkers Are Living With Nuns

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Welcome to the New York rental market, where the median asking rent hit $3,616 in the first quarter this year, 20% above pre-pandemic levels, according to Realtor.com. To manage on a starting salary, some young professionals are turning to convents.

Sacred Heart charged Rettig around $1,650 a month while St. Mary’s Residence ran her around $1,200 a month. Other residences include St. Agnes Residence on the Upper West Side, which starts at around $950 a month, and Centro Maria in the Bronx, which charges around $800 a month. Most houses accept non-Christian residents and don’t require any religious practice.

They do come with rules. Some have curfews of 11 p.m. or midnight. Women’s houses bar male visitors from the rooms, and the same usually goes for alcohol.

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Not all houses are women-only. Kolping House, a Catholic organization on the Upper West Side, runs about 90 rooms with two floors for men and one for women–and no curfew.

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