The bad news is that you can’t be nineteen forever. The good news is that you can always live in the same kind of accommodation you lived in, aged nineteen, forever.
The “co-living” movement essentially aims to expand the student accommodation model to people who are no longer students. It is the basis of initiatives like The Collective, which offers a ”new way to live in cities”, by combining private ensuite rooms with shared spaces.
Like Help to Buy, shared ownership and flat-shares for the middle-aged, co-living is a symptom of a wider lack of housing affordability in large cities.
