Home sharing, particularly via online platforms, is becoming a mainstream housing strategy as social processes evolve and housing costs rise. Recent research has studied shared rentals as a modality for students and kin-based households, as one strategy among diversifying pathways to housing and as a social phenomenon. However, we still know little about whether it actually creates opportunities for home seekers in unaffordable markets. Analysing online rental listings in Los Angeles, we find that shared rentals are both more affordable and more widely available across diverse neighbourhoods than traditional whole-unit rentals. Shared rentals have historically been understudied due to their limited data trail, but they offer important entryways into unaffordable markets. We argue for shared housing research to shift its traditional focus away from students and young adults and towards a broader exploration of the diverse populations that may benefit from or depend on shared housing.

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进入专属城市：住房共享作为经济适用房策略


随着社会进程的发展和住房成本的上升，房屋共享，特别是通过在线平台，正在成为主流的住房策略。最近的研究研究了合租作为学生和亲属家庭的一种模式、作为住房途径多样化的一种策略以及作为一种社会现象。然而，我们仍然不知道它是否真的为房价昂贵的市场中的购房者创造了机会。通过分析洛杉矶的在线租赁清单，我们发现共享租赁比传统的整套租赁更便宜，而且在不同社区中更广泛使用。由于数据追踪有限，共享租赁历来未被充分研究，但它们提供了进入负担不起的市场的重要入口。我们主张共享住房研究应将其传统重点从学生和年轻人转移到更广泛地探索可能受益于或依赖共享住房的不同人群。