<p>Communication can’t really make the situation worse. Why on earth wouldn’t it make sense for the roommates to communicate while the RD is looking into the situation.</p>
<p>Even if the compromise slants heavily to one roommate, e.g. </p>
<p>“Let’s agree to wait 2 weeks to talk about scheduling the first visit, and see if the housing department has a solution by then.”</p>
<p>or </p>
<p>“Let’s agree to write a joint letter about our concerns, so that the RD knows that we agree that the current situation isn’t working”</p>
<p>or </p>
<p>“Given that childfree roommate works 8 hours on Tuesday and Thursday, let’s limit child’s visits to those rooms to those hours and further stipulate that child is never in the room without direct supervision, and is not allowed to touch childfree roommate’s things”. </p>
<p>or </p>
<p>Childfree roommate gets nowhere, and is able to honestly go back to RD with more evidence of why a move hasn’t happen.</p>
<p>How can communicating hurt? How is it bad advice?</p>