07. Trends and Opportunities in the Co-Living Industry

In this interview, Thrive cofounder Mark Stein speaks with Christine McDannell, cofounder and CEO of Kndrd.io, the first management software platform and global directory for co-living. She’s also host of “The CoLiving Code” on YouTube and author of The CoLiving Code: How to Find Your Tribe, Share Resources, and Design Your Life.

Christine is one of the world’s leading experts in co-living. She’s researched and visited co-living communities in major cities around the globe, and has interviewed more than 100 co-living guests on her YouTube show.

This episode offers a wealth of information about co-living. Mark and Christine touch on these topics and more:

• Current trends in co-living experiences.
• How to facilitate a sense of community in a co-living situation.
• The difference between co-housing and co-living.
• Best practices for offering programming in a co-living community.
• How co-living communities are striving to keep their residents safe amidst COVID-19.

To learn more about available co-living communities around the world—or how to share your own co-living community online—visit https://kndrd.io.

To check out The CoLiving Code show on YouTube, visit https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWeCRX1V3e1e3MmqlXHqFGg.

To order a copy of The Coliving Code: How to Find Your Tribe, Share Resources, and Design Your Life, visit https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GQ9GYX1/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

ABOUT THRIVE CO-LIVING COMMUNITIES

Thrive Co-Living Communities are cooperative residential living communities in re-purposed big box stores for people of all ages. Thrive Co-Living Communities provide a concrete solution to the growing sense of isolation and despair that is leading to depression, addiction, and suicide among many sectors of the U.S. population. Serving young people, millennials, baby boomers, artists, young families and any other progressives in search of a harmonious community life, the organization promotes and supports the development of abandoned big-box stores into sustainable co-living communities, offering the exact balance of independent living and co-living experience that each resident member desires.

Thrive Co-Living Communities are charged with:

➡️ Educating communities about co-living options

➡️ Assisting with the design and development of big-box co-living communities

➡️ Providing grants or short-term loans for early development costs for new communities

➡️ Maintaining an archive of architectural designs and programming templates for members to access

➡️ Developing community and supporting cooperation among start-up and existing co-living communities

➡️ Fostering the development of community programs and activities (e.g. in-house mediation programs, opportunities for social interaction through movies, lectures, concerts, poetry readings, etc.)

To learn more about Thrive Co-living Communities, visit http://thrivecolivingcommunities.org/.