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Take a look inside the stylish, modern-day communes that are taking over US cities

Mar 1, 2018, 03:22 IST

Melia Robinson/Business Insider

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More and more city dwellers are considering alternative housing options.

Co-living spaces like Common, which opened three new living facilities since the start of 2018, are providing a sleek reconfiguring of communal life.

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In exchange for putting up with a group of strangers in your common space, you receive your own bedroom, a weekly cleaning service, and a regularly replenished stock of items like paper towels, toilet paper, and dish soap.

As Common grows, it's able to offer its rooms at increasingly competitive rates by buying furnishings, supplies, and linens in bulk.

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Whatever your opinion on sharing a bathroom with nine other people might be, the demand for co-living spaces shows no sign of letting up: "Right now, we're supply-constrained," said Hargreaves. "We get over 1000 applicants per week - far more demand than we can currently provide for."

Take a look inside Common's latest facility:

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