Hello locals!

A friend and I have just graduated from the Geneva Academy. I have a job offer at a small NGO, and she is doing an internship at the UNHCR. Due to our salary differences, (the UN famously has an exemption from minimum internship salaries and I would be on standard Geneva minimum wage) we have quite different budgets when looking for housing. I would like to help her out by getting myself a comfortable size studio or 1 bed with living room and allowing her to crash with me, for a small contribution. I myself on minimum wage cannot afford too much on my own either.

I wonder if this is something that is feasible in Geneva, as people renting / subletting seem to be quite picky when it comes to things like this ... Does anyone know of the best way I should approach this? Is a budget of 1300 for what I am looking for unrealistic? and when looking for a place, seeing as most landlords refuse when I let them know of this plan, they refuse, is it better to just not tell them at all?

Grateful for any advice! Thanks!