Housing

RaumTeiler: Spare rooms for students in Leipzig

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RaumTeiler, run by Studentenwerk Leipzig, connects students in need of housing with locals who have space to share. It’s simple yet powerful: a room in exchange for rent, support, or sometimes both. When I meet students searching for a place to call home, it’s more than just logistics. It’s seeing their relief when we find

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Haus im Fluss to bring communal living to Groβzschocher

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How do you afford to build a communal apartment building for a few million euros? Here's how one communal living group is doing it.

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Together! The Grassi’s exhibit on communal living

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"With the increasing demand for housing in big cities dictating property prices, and less space available for adequate housing, communal housing cooperatives offer a viable alternative to many families, as well as young or older people who can’t afford to - or choose not to - live alone."

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Relearning how to live (with the ‘other’)

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"Because we barely know the personal stories of the refugees, we tend to not see them as peers. But... behind our ‘worries’ is also racism, classism and other expressions of prejudice."

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