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A history of collective living : forms of shared housing
The book tells the story of communal living from about 1850 until today. Three motives of sharing - the economic, political and social intention - divide the residential objects, which are investigated in a historical analysis and allocated to nine development phases. The author investigates and compares different forms of housing and the way they developed from their origins until today; she illustrates how everyday shared living and the degrees of privacy in housing are practiced in Europe. Owing to its comprehensive documentation, the analysis of typologies, layout plans, and user and expert interviews, the book can also be considered to be a lexicon or handbook on communal living. A detailed overview that is unique in this form.
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Urban-rural differences in the health care of people living with dementia and mild cognitive impairment in shared-housing arrangements in Germany – have inequities in urban vs. rural locations been overcome?
Background
Previous studies have identified inequities in the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures used with community-dwelling people living with dementia (PlwDs) or people living with mild cognitive impairment (PlwMCIs) depending on the urban vs. rural location of their residence. Whether those differences in health care and health services utilization still exist for people residing in shared-housing arrangements (SHAs) remains unclear at this point.
Methods
In a prospective, multicenter, mixed-methods, cluster-randomized controlled trial, the “DemWG study,” 341 PlwDs or PlwMCIs living in a total of 97 SHAs across Germany were recruited. 31 of the participating SHAs were rural (133 participants), 66 were urban (208 participants). As a secondary analysis we evaluated health care data (e.g. vaccinations, medication), utilization of inpatient/outpatient medical services, non-pharmacological therapies according to the German Remedies Directive, provision of health and medical aids and structural data of the SHAs. Variables were assessed at baseline by trained staff from the SHAs using validated instruments (e.g. FIMA - questionnaire for health-related resource use in an elderly population). Descriptive and inferential statistical methods were applied.
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-values were corrected with the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure.
Results
The majority of the assessed health care data did not show significant differences between urban and rural SHA inhabitants. After the p-values were corrected, only two variables remained different: inhabitants of rural SHAs were prescribed a significantly larger number of total drugs, while urban inhabitants had significantly more appointments with neurologists/psychiatrists in the last 6 months. There were no significant differences in the use of all other type of inpatient/outpatient services, non-pharmacological therapies, use of health and medical aids. Also, the structural data of the SHAs like staffing did not significantly differ between urban and rural place of living.
Discussion
While it seems that most inequities in the care of PlwDs/PlwMCIs living in SHAs between rural and urban areas have been overcome, there is still the one crucial difference in this non-representative sample of SHAs: the contact with neurologic/psychiatric specialists who offer elaborated diagnostic procedures is less frequent in rural areas.
Trial registration
ISRCTN89825211 (Registered prospectively, 16 July 2019).
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Together by design : the art and architecture of communal living
A growing area in the sharing economy, intentional communities (co-living, communal living, and cohousing projects) are explored in this timely survey via architecture, public policy, sociology, and sustainability. In recent years, the Atlantic, Forbes, Time, and Curbed have reported on the growth of intentional communities-collective housing alternatives that initially gained popularity in the United States in the early 1990s and originated in Denmark in the 1960s. Featuring fifteen to twenty contemporary projects that address the challenges and benefits of shared resources and spaces, Intentional Communities addresses a growing population: according to the Pew Research Center, nearly one in three adults in the United States lives in a shared household. From Copenhagen to Washington, DC, this survey covers architecture, public policy, design, lifestyle, culture, and environmental sustainability.
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Radical Housing
Radical Housing explores the planning, technical, financial, health-based and social background for developing multi-generational homes and co-living. Abundantly illustrated with case studies and plans from projects across the UK and abroad, this book inform sand inspires the delivery of alternative approaches to affordable and flexible housing, and is an essential text for architecture practitioners, students, and community groups.
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Exquisite mariposa : a novel
In the aftermath of a reality TV deal gone wrong, Fiona Alison Duncan asks the question, Can you rewrite your life? The answer, her debut novel Exquisite Mariposa, follows a cast of housemates as they navigate questions of art making and economies, breakups and breakdowns, and the internet and its many obsessions.
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Radical Housing
Housing is long overdue a radical rethink. There has never been a more urgent need for flexible, adaptable and affordable housing in the UK and yet despite this pressing demand, much of our housing stock is not fit for purpose. How can new ways of living provide a more sociable housing alternative for all generations?
Radical Housing draws together some of the best current examples of multigenerational housing. An essential design guide for architects and others, it offers inspiration and advice for customer-led housing. Exploring the planning, technical, financial, health-based and social drivers for developing multi-generational homes and co-living, it offers a holistic view of both established and emerging innovative housing. Abundantly illustrated with case studies and plans from projects across the UK and abroad, Radical Housing aims to inform and inspire the delivery of alternative approaches to affordable and flexible housing. It is an invaluable text for architecture practitioners, students and community groups.
Provides practical guidance on delivery, planning consent and the legislative framework.
Demonstrates how alternative housing models can deliver high-density affordable housing.
Features key UK projects and practices such as Marmalade Lane in Cambridge by Mole Architects, Caring Wood in Kent by James Macdonald Wright and Niall Maxwell, Buccleuch House in Hackney by Levitt Bernstein and Hanham Hall in Bristol by HTA Design LLP, as well as exemplar projects from The Netherlands, Germany and Denmark.
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Communal Intimacy
This article uses collective housing, a voluntary form of shared living positioned in between the conventional intimacy sphere and public life, to explore the relation between the organized and the intimate. Combining multisited observations and interviews, the study reveals collective housing to represent fairly depersonalized homes characterized by residential transition and formalization. Rather than addressing the dwellings in terms of detachment, however, the article demonstrates that they are exchange(st)able structures with existential bearing. It is through, not despite, the partially organized framework of daily chores and routines that closeness emerges. Grounded in these findings, the article calls for a reframing of intimacy outside of its traditional contexts and proposes the term “communal intimacy” to conceptualize a sociality of closeness that is bound not to exclusive dyads but to an inclusive relational infrastructure characterized by the strength of many weak ties.
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Sharing housing: a solution to – or a reflection of – housing inequality?
Shared housing is a rather unusual phenomenon in Sweden. However, due to the decreasing availability of affordable housing and a large share of single-person households in urban areas, sharing is on the rise and new forms of shared housing have entered the market. By analysing how shared housing overlaps with existing patterns of socioeconomic segregation and by interviewing developers of diverse forms of shared housing in the cities of Stockholm and Malmö, this article aims to evolve the understanding of sharing housing from a perspective on housing inequality. We find that while many households are sharing housing because there are no other options, others share because they have the possibility to share certain spaces and facilities, which makes life easier and enhances a sense of togetherness. While the first category is concentrated in marginalized and racialized areas of the cities, the other category is concentrated in well-off areas. Developers offering shared solutions in marginalized areas are few but do so based on a discourse of ‘receiving less for more’, while developers offering shared housing in wealthier districts are doing so based on ‘sustainability’ and ‘making life easier’, as the shared housing includes private facilities and services that aim to support an effortless lifestyle in districts with existing urban assets. The conclusion is that sharing housing is no longer solely built on community spirit and de-growth, but sharing housing is also a reflection of contemporary housing inequality.
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Shared housing for students and young professionals: evolution of a market in need of regulation
This research addresses the shared housing market, that is, large-scale developments targeting students and ‘young professionals’, equipped with shared spaces and services for the residents. This housing segment has emerged in response to young adults’ demand for flexible and affordable housing. It has developed in cities that concentrate students and young single professionals, plan densification strategies and face housing commodification. We specifically explore the production side of this market, through the comparison of two projects in Amsterdam. Our objective is to understand the institutional context in which these projects were developed and their outcomes. Consequently, the research questions are: which actors develop these projects, what instruments do they use, and what are the outcomes in a commodifying housing market? From our analysis, the actors need to collaborate on shared housing developments and receive support from local governments, through the strategic use of planning instruments and tenure regulations. However, the shared facilities seem to merely serve to commercialize small housing production, while housing affordability and accessibility are threatened. We, thus, recommend local and national authorities to regulate the provision of shared spaces and suggest further research on the effects of the shared housing market in cities facing housing commodification.
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Struggles and opportunities at the platform interface: tenants’ experiences of navigating shared room housing using digital platforms in Sydney
Digital platforms have shaped the ways of navigating and occupying shared housing properties in the private rental market. Online platforms reconfigure the geography of housing searches and allow potential tenants to identify and enquire about shared properties while transcending local and national boundaries. Urban scholarship has viewed these platforms as real-time, fine-grained, big datasets for investigating housing markets. However, limited attention has been given to tenants’ experiences of using online platforms, and the extent to which these platforms facilitate access to housing. Drawing on interviews with tenants [n = 35] in Sydney, this paper explores tenants’ experiences of searching, negotiating and securing shared room housing advertised on digital platforms. The findings highlight that shared housing digital platforms operate on the logic of peer-to-peer interaction between landlords and tenants via user-generated listings. These platforms allow tenants to compare rental prices, locations and characteristics of shared properties through ‘computerised algorithms’. Shared housing tenants, nonetheless, face a series of challenges, especially related to misrepresentation of property conditions, fake profile identity of advertisers, upward pressure on rental prices and high competition for listed properties, all of which influence their housing search and living experiences. Digital platforms emerge as complex socio-technical assemblages that are difficult to regulate as city authorities struggle to formulate effective mechanisms to govern technology-led social change. The paper provides valuable insights into housing informality and tenant exploitation at the platform interface and calls for platform governance.
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