(2017-04-05) Common Coliving Startup

Adults Are Terrible At Making Friends. This Startup Wants To Help

The CoLiving company Common is trying to meet both of these needs at once by offering well-designed, fully furnished rooms in shared houses where the community is led by a so-called “house leader,” whose role is to help everyone make friends

Each Common house–which is typically divided into several suites that have two to five bedrooms, one or two bathrooms, a living area, and a fully stocked kitchenette, as well as general house-wide living spaces

There’s her “suite”–including her husband and one other person–who make up her inner circle. Then, her “house”–a set of apartments under one house leader–the people she would order dumplings with on a Friday night. Lastly, there’s the entire 56-person Common residence, whom she’d invite to a documentary screening she wants to host in the house’s movie theater.