The liquid world is outfitting itself with new housing models that will provide people not only with short-term leases that last only as long as the next gig but also with prefab, short-term “communities.”
Life spent chasing after employment opportunities might get lonely, so why not purchase a simulacrum of a community?
I wonder how soon we will see a startup that will make a fortune peddling temporary families available to the customers wherever they find themselves next in their chase after liquid capital. The best thing about the idea is that the startup’s costs of doing business will be minimal. There is no need to provide the prefab families because the restless travelers will arrange themselves into temporary family-like structures on their own. All you need to do to get their money is tell them to do it.
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Everything old is new again. This basically sounds like an updated version of the boarding house, which is where students and young singles used to live until zoning, building codes, and apartment regulations drove most of them out of business.
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The article doesn’t say how many occupants per floor, but just two bathrooms and a single kitchen on each story could mean some awfully tight scheduling for essential daily activities.
I personally had enough of community living when I was in college and the military to last me a lifetime!
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Airbnb.com ?
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Yes, it’s the next step after airbnb.
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Oh, there’s far worse than this …
I’ve seen buildings that are nothing more than a stacking organiser for a bunch of pre-fabricated housing units — they build the frame or retrofit it into an existing building and then use cranes to hoist the pre-fab units into their grid positions.
The pre-fab units are built entirely off-site in a factory that specialises in building these things at appreciably lower costs.
Once these pre-fab units are loaded into the grid, the builders rebuild the façade so it looks like the units were built along with the building — utility links more or less line up with minimal fitting, fairly much sorting that problem.
This is more or less a slightly more up-market version of having a twenty-equivalent unit (or TEU) from a cargo ship turned into a flat — the designers have more or less created a beehive for TEUs.
Actually, TEUs might be a step up in terms of materials, since these pre-fab units tend to be containerised wood frame construction with a standardised interface …
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