I 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

I 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.