#communal-living tag

Why We Need Kin: A Conversation With Sophie Lucido Johnson

There's been tons of research published on the impact of the pandemic on different populations but less discussed are its effects on new parents and how we may now be wired differently. But what I can say from experience is that thanks to my constant worrying about Covid-19, my brain seemed to believe only my husband and I could keep our children safe-and that was exhausting.

Relationships

Arts

fromHyperallergic

1 month ago

The Sacrifices of the Single-Mother Artist

Three divorced, single-mother artists shared a Bowery house, converted floors into studios, raised families, and sustained ambitious artistic careers for over fifty years.

Real estate

fromwww.theguardian.com

2 months ago

Could Zurich's housing cooperatives be the solution to the rest of Europe's housing crisis? | Peter Apps

A resident-owned housing cooperative in Zurich provides affordable, communal living without landlords or profit, integrating shared facilities and mixed-income residents.

Television

fromenglish.elpais.com

3 months ago

From OnlyFans mansions to extreme co-living: Inside the boom in community experimentation

A new wave of community experimentation—driven by economic stress, online platform economics, and reality-TV influence—is producing extreme communal living models and content-creator collectives.

Books

fromwww.theguardian.com

3 months ago

Ruth by Kate Riley review a very different kind of candour

An insular Anabaptist Brotherhood enforces collectivism and repression, producing loneliness, suppressed desire, conformity, and a yearning for beauty and connection.

fromCurbed

4 months ago

'Baby Jesus Had Been Kidnapped' and More Co-op Stories From Our Readers

One reader's email recounted how a Christmas tree and creche in their co-op lobby sparked complaints and a bizarre incident involving the kidnapping of baby Jesus, which ended in its return.

NYC real estate

fromFortune

5 months ago

Gen Z is copying baby boomers with communal living-but this time, it's because they can't afford a house on their own

Today, Gen Z and millennials are increasingly turning to co-buying homes with friends or family—not for countercultural reasons, but as a practical response to high housing prices.