Planning for sufficiency shared housing: Toward an agenda for future research and practice

Experts from the CDUCL project argue that co-housing and co-living aren't implemented more widely because public authorities are neither clearly supportive nor clearly prohibitive of these shared-access living models. Providing more shared housing options like co-housing and co-living could help create smaller private homes without making it harder for people to get the space they need. 

Living alone and in smaller households in modern contexts involve a rather inefficient allocation of resources. In this commentary, experts from the project CDUCL project recommend how research in urban studies can help planners and policy makers to address this through the development of plans and regulations that guide the development of shared housing proactively. 

Learn more about Consumer Demand for Circular Urban Living (CDCLU) project here.