Sounds painful to me, I want to have my own space and not have to deal with other people in it let alone 15 of them.

I bet there’s no proper garage/workshop space either for those of us who like to be able to work on things, and even if there is it’d be a nightmare sharing tools with other people. Lack of such space is unfortunately common in anything affordable now though, it’s really hard to find an apartment with an actual garage (no wonder people are lacking manual skills these days).

What she’s describing here is a commune, not a sharehouse. Very different beasts.

must have been fun at the height of covid

The house, on a big double-block near the heart of the city, was started almost two decades ago by an environmentalist couple who wanted to use their inheritance to create and support sustainable, communal housing.

So there’s effectively ONE situation like this in the country. Meaning the headline is just fodder for landlords to feel like their behaviour/plans to “cram them in” is acceptable/positive… And ergo it’s irresponsible for SBS to publish it with that title.

I’m just picturing the inner city landlord segmenting a four bedroom family home into an eight sleeping pod hell house patting themselves on the back and saying “real relationships will be formed here thanks to my investment”.

I hate smug “my 10 person inner city warehouse situationship where the pipes leak works for me” stories. Hey good for you but your headline lifestyle and time in the limelight doesn’t change the fact that the rest of the renters are in a fucked up housing crisis.

It smacks of “of tenants are responsible to each other landlords can have as many people living there as they see fit” or as the article puts it:

high expectations of each other are key to successful communal living.

Nope, tenants are not the problem here.

The article left out the most important data.

How much does it cost, how many kitchens, how many bathrooms, how big is private living space, what about utilities