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>>we should reintroduce the modern equivalent of "boarding houses" In Ireland, this is called co-living, and has faced such backlash that new co-living develop
by rgblambda 6y ago
>>we should reintroduce the modern equivalent of "boarding houses"
In Ireland, this is called co-living, and has faced such backlash that new co-living developments have been effectively banned.
- Ericson2314 6y agoThat's a real bummer, but keep in mind by American standards plain old "apartments" are radical enough.
- derriz 6y agoThat's a very weird equivalence. I really can't see how living in a boarding house is anything like co-living? A boarding house is generally someone's primary residence where the owner lets out one or two spare bedrooms to lodgers and often provides them with meals and the like. They were mainly used by the transient, single and/or poor. Boarding houses hardly exist any more in the west. The classic boarding house owner was a widow back in the day when employment opportunities for elderly women were fairly bleak. Co-living has grown in the last decade in many wealthy western cities and provides accommodation which is somewhere between staying in a motel and renting a studio apartment. It's generally more expensive than renting a studio - because of the flexibility - and typically targets visiting professional workers or wealthy students.
- rgblambda 6y agoI see co-living as a natural progression/commercialization of boarding houses. Maybe I'm completely wrong on that. But I see the Wikipedia article on co-living gives boarding houses as the origin of the concept. >>and typically targets visiting professional workers or wealthy students. I believe the official reason for the ban was that co-living developments were crowding out all other types of housing, forcing people outside of those two categories to rent them.