Kyle Harrison
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Communal Living

Communal Living

Communal living is the practice of people choosing to live near each other, or on shared land, by design. It is the tag Kyle used in 2020 and 2021 for saved posts about friend groups, shared property and builder communities.

Examples in the saved posts:

  • Dave Winer on “Creator Cabins”: “exactly what I dreamed of when I was in my 20s” (Creator Cabins. This is exactly… (tweet)).
  • Nat Eliason: three couples buying 5-100 acre lots about an hour outside Austin, with more friends coming (Me and all my friends… (tweet)).
  • A proposal to normalize buying property with friends, decoupling homeownership from marriage (We should normalize buying property… (tweet)).
  • Mckay Wrigley’s proposal to buy Montana land for less than a San Francisco condo and build a neighborhood of modular shipping-container homes (Who wants to move to… (tweet); also filed under The New City).
  • A “WeWork for land” idea for tiny-home villages (@fortelabs Land for tiny home… (tweet)) and an apartment community acquirer doing something similar (Funny you mention because we… (tweet)).

It connects to City Building and to the education company Edyfi, which is tagged with it.

Where this appears

  • Creator Cabins. This is exactly… (tweet)