ABSTRACT
Household formation has undergone rapid change over the past two decades. At the same time, different generations are increasingly choosing to live together; young adults are staying in the parental home beyond the age of 30, often for reasons of affordability, while older people are increasingly exploring alternatives to the isolation of self-contained retirement communities. New models of shared living are needed to facilitate this changing residential landscape. While co-living developments typically only cater for individuals or couples, the ideas that have shaped this typology can just as easily be applied to family and multifamily housing. For many multigenerational homes, the extra living spaces are designed to accommodate older family members, or are for the use of grown-up children who want to live at the home with a degree of independence, perhaps while studying or saving for their own properties.
