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Platform economy politics reflect a trend of corporations working with civic actors to achieve shared political goals, reconfiguring once adversarial relationships (e.g., management vs. labor, homeowners vs. tenants). Yet theories on urban politics and policymaking often do not account for such "Baptist-Bootlegger" coalitions (Smith and Yandle 2014; Yandle 1983). This article analyzes how the efforts of two competing Baptist-Bootlegger coalitions shaped the 2018 short-term rental (i.e., Airbnb, HomeAway) ordinance in Los Angeles, CA, USA. I argue that a subtly coordinated partnership of housing groups, neighborhood activists, and hotel market incumbents leveraged their individual authenticity and resources to successfully articulate a shared vision with policymakers. Conversely, an opposing coalition of short-term rental platforms and hosts more explicitly combined their efforts under an organizational framework that conflated economic and moral claims; this hybrid organizational identity was perceived as less authentic by policymaking audiences and precluded potentially more strategic forms of organizing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new academic year began in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to allow for in-person learning, a fundamental part of medical education, some medical schools grappled with how to safely move students into shared on-campus housing. The authors describe a behavior-based strategy to safely move students from all parts of the United States to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. This strategy included a school-organized phased move-in that included 14-day quarantines for students coming from states with high COVID prevalence; requiring students to sign a COVID-agreement; the use of a phone-based daily COVID risk assessment; and facilitation of safe in-person social activities with peer monitoring of adherence to behavior guidelines. This strategy resulted in no known transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in student housing between July and October of the 2020 to 2021 academic year. The authors share this strategy in the hope that colleagues at other medical schools will find it useful in utilizing similar behavior-based strategies to keep students safe in shared housing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new academic year began in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to allow for in-person learning, a fundamental part of medical education, some medical schools grappled with how to safely move students into shared on-campus housing. The authors describe a behavior-based strategy to safely move students from all parts of the United States to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. This strategy included a school-organized phased move-in that included 14-day quarantines for students coming from states with high COVID prevalence; requiring students to sign a COVID-agreement; the use of a phone-based daily COVID risk assessment; and facilitation of safe in-person social activities with peer monitoring of adherence to behavior guidelines. This strategy resulted in no known transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in student housing between July and October of the 2020 to 2021 academic year. The authors share this strategy in the hope that colleagues at other medical schools will find it useful in utilizing similar behavior-based strategies to keep students safe in shared housing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Moreover, insecurity is baked into the DNA of the rental sector, which means tenants are exposed to any major social or economic shocks. More than half of tenants remain for less than three years in their home ([2]), and a recent survey shows that a third of those looking for rental properties were doing so because they had been evicted from their home ([7]). 3 Chisholm E, Howden-Chapman P, Fougere G (2020) Tenants' responses to substandard housing: hidden and invisible power and the failure of rental housing regulation. [Extracted from the article]

This article evaluates whether Airbnb rentals affect the rents in the private rental sector in eight cities in France. We estimate a hedonic equation for each city on individual data for apartments, allowing for heteroscedasticity and spatial error autocorrelation of unknown forms and using a large variety of structural and contextual characteristics of the apartments. We show that the density of Airbnb rentals puts upward pressure on rents in Lyon, Montpellier, and Paris, whereas it has no significant effect in other cities. If we restrict the analysis to the professional business of Airbnb rentals, which we define as the lodgings owned by an investor who rents either several "entire home" dwellings (regardless of the number of days) or an "entire home" dwelling for more than 120 days a year, we find a greater effect, which concerns only the two largest cities of France, that is, Marseille and Paris. When we focus on new tenancy agreements, the impact is even higher and concerns Paris, Marseille, and Montpellier. The impact of the Airbnb activity on rents is shown to increase with the proportion of owner-occupiers and decrease with hotel density, both in Montpellier and Paris. However, the share of second homes leads to contrasting effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rationale for this study was to contribute to the surprising paucity of research on the topic of shared housing among young adults and particularly the explanations and justifications involved in selecting new flatmates. The study aimed to develop greater understanding of the required discrimination involved in choosing acceptable people for the intimacy of shared living, which conflicts with current taboos against openly discussing prejudice. Data were drawn from interviews with experienced house sharers in New Zealand, recently involved in the selection of new housemates. The analysis examines how people with mental or substance abuse problems are discursively constructed as acceptable or unsuitable. Stigma, stereotyping, and discrimination were evident but rejection was framed in terms of safety, economic concerns, social harmony, and past bad experiences. Mental illness was acceptable providing it was unproblematic and invisible. While recreational soft drug use was condoned, hard drugs and frequent use were not. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When people experience trouble in their relations with others, they may come to define the problem in nonjudgmental ways as a conflict to be resolved or in moralistic terms as a product of the other’s deviant intentions or character. Empirical materials on troubles among college roommates reveal an initial preference for the former, with the latter typically emerging if and when initial response efforts fail and the trouble escalates. These findings force a revision of analyses that take up consideration of the conflict/deviance alternative only with the entrance of a third party into dyadic troubles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the challenges associated with what has become a common approach to the rehousing of "hard to house" groups-shared housing models. The researcher collected and analyzed data from participants living in 2 shared housing programs for formerly homeless people in Toronto Canada who were on the verge of being evicted from their apartments Findings illuminated participants' pathways to homelessness and other related experiences during multiple episodes. of homelessness, the negotiations they made to continue living in their current shared housing program, factors that jeopardized their housing stability and the resources they utilized to stay housed Findings underscore the need for a multidimensional approach to the provision of housing and for related support services that address recurrent homelessness [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article describes a case study which investigated how individuals who are visually impaired design their own shared living areas. The study involved four participants with severe visual impairments and their four sighted children. On a limited budget, the shared living space were renovated by the participants. The renovation process was analyzed according to the topics associated with tactile factors, including comfort, safety and functionality, as well as visual factors which include aesthetics and psychological needs.

The aims of this study were: a) to examine general perceptions of filial obligations toward sharing housing with older parents and stepparents; and b) to assess the effects of selected contextual factors on those normative beliefs. A national sample of 579 men and 582 women (mean age = 44.6, SD = 17.2) responded to a multiple segment factorial vignette in which an older parent or stepparent was portrayed as needing help with housing. Respondents thought that parents should be helped more than stepparents, younger adults with greater resources were more obligated to help older parents and stepparents than were those with meager resources, and older parents and stepparents with greater need acuity were expected to be helped more than older parents and stepparents with less serious housing needs. Attitudes about co-residence were based on family obligation norms, beliefs about repaying older adults for past help, perceived relationship quality, other demands on the younger adult's resources, the older person's resources, and moral responsibilities to assist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents abstracts of various papers published in the March 1, 2004 issue of the journal "Current Sociology." In one of the paper "Cultures of Intimacy and Care Beyond 'the Family': Personal Life and Social Change in the Early 21st Century," by Sasha Roseneil and Shelley Budgeon, authors argue that if sociologists are to understand the current state and likely future, of intimacy and care, one should decentre the family and the heterosexual couple in there intellectual imaginaries. The authors draw upon their own research on the most individualized sector of the population, adults who are not living with a partner. They explore contemporary cultures of intimacy and care among this group through a number of case studies and argue that two interrelated processes characterize these cultures: centring on friendship and decentring sexual relationships. Another paper "Peer-Shared Households, Quasi-Communes and Neo-Tribes," by Sue Heath explores the nature of the relationships that exist between young people living in such households. The article considers the conditions under which some shared households may move beyond neo-tribalism to take on the characteristics of quasi-commune, marked by the institutionalization of friendship within a domestic setting.

The article presents a range of situations where the living apart together (LAT) relationship has been established by couples in ways, which differ from marriage or cohabitation. Couples often choose a LAT relationship as their living arrangement in order to avoid choosing between an elderly parent, or their own children and the new partner. An alternative arrangement is partly made possible by LAT relationships because the pressure upon couples to settle down together in a common dwelling has decreased. The recognition of LAT relationships as a new social phenomenon, in several western societies and the documented rise in its frequency, as well as the general increasing awareness of the term LAT relationship, are factors at work today that may some day establish the LAT relationship as a generally recognized and accepted social institution in many more countries. There are many reasons for predicting that LAT relationships will be more common in the near future. The labor market will probably not return to the relatively simple structure it had only a few decades ago. Specialization will probably continue to increase, affecting even more jobholders. The LAT relationship may become a more common way for dealing with a difficult marriage or non-marital cohabitation.

As one move further into the new century, demographic projections suggest that peer-shared housing will continue to be a common focus of the living arrangements of many young people in their twenties and early thirties, if not beyond. Given the continuing rise in house prices, the incidence of shared living arrangements in the private rented sector is likely to expand, while it is predicted that a growing number of young people will opt to take out mortgages with friends as a strategy for getting a foothold on the housing ladder. While interpretations undoubtedly differ, it remains incontrovertible that young people are at the forefront of these shifts. In particular, as young people spend less time in couple households during their twenties and more time living alone or with their peers, friendship networks are taking on increased importance in their lives. Within popular culture, peer-shared households are widely portrayed as key sites for the fostering of friendship. The article presents data from research on peer-shared households conducted in the late 1990s.