It’s being promoted as the new answer to the housing crisis for young, urban professionals - and it is about to arrive in a big way in Bristol. It’s called ‘co-living’, and within a year or two could be the accommodation model for hundreds of people in Bristol city centre, with potentially thousands of people living this way by the end of the decade.
But what exactly is 'co-living', and is it the future of living in the middle of the city?
Those proposing to build it say it is providing what young, single people want in the mid-2020s, but others say they fear it is a new way for developers to make huge profits by cramming even more people into even smaller living spaces.
