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Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 weeks 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
1 month 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
3 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
4 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.
Real estate
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