Co-Living Research What is co-living? Co-living as defined by Coliving.com,
“is a community living concept for like-minded people to live, work, and play together. Living spaces are well designed, fully furnished, with incidentals and utilities covered by one bill. Catering to various living styles and tastes, the main value of the coliving experience is access to the community.” As stated, the main focus of co-living is ‘access to the community.’ This is the driving point behind most co-living environments. A main way of achieving this is by allowing residents to share areas with eachother that they otherwise would not. Things like bathrooms, living spaces and kitchens. This mindset forces people together, allowing them to communicate and develop friendships and communities. By making a co-living environment attractive to certain, specific demographics, the residence will likely attract like-minded people or people in a already similar working sitution. This again helps build communities as these people will more easily develop friendships. Co-living has various benefits, including affordability, convenience and community. These benefits alone make co-living an instantly attractive lifestyle to an ever growing number of people around the world. This is also largely thanks to it’s ability to cater for almost any individual’s situations, whether they are working in office or at home, studying or even travelling. Different lifestyles in the same co-living environment help develop larger, more diverse communities.
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