Co-Living

Co-living surfaces in Kyle’s The New City reading-list cluster — a set of saved Quick Capture links (including a June 29th, 2021 batch) on cities, distributed living, and the future of work. The concrete references are Blueground (theblueground.com) and a Wall Street Journal piece on “co-living buildings going big in Brooklyn and Bay Area.” In the wiki it is grouped under Alternative Real Estate, where the co-living and land-acquisition material (Blueground, Brooklyn/Bay-Area co-living, Toll Brothers) is gathered under Kyle’s banner for treating housing and built space as a reinvention opportunity. It also threads into the Future of Work and Remote Work notes, since co-living and distributed-living arrangements connect to how work and where people live are decoupling.

The treatment is reference-level rather than deeply argued — co-living appears as one of the urban/housing experiments Kyle is tracking within his city-building interest, not yet as a fully worked-out thesis.

Context: Co-living is a residential model offering private bedrooms within shared, professionally managed apartments or buildings — bundling furnished space, flexible leases, and community amenities. It grew alongside the 2010s flexible-work and urban-housing-affordability trends; Blueground (furnished move-in-ready rentals) and venture-backed co-living operators were prominent examples in the period Kyle’s links date from.

Where this appears

• The New City — co-living appears in the reading-list cluster (Blueground, the WSJ Brooklyn/Bay-Area co-living article) within Kyle’s smart-cities/future-of-work thread.
• Alternative Real Estate — co-living and land-acquisition material (Blueground, Brooklyn/Bay-Area co-living, Toll Brothers) gathered under the reinvention/arbitrage banner.