communal apartments
Multi-family living spaces
Communal apartments are residential units where multiple families share common spaces like kitchens and bathrooms while occupying separate rooms.
The arrangement is most associated with Soviet-era housing, where the state converted large apartments into shared dwellings to address urban housing shortages: Three generations of her family grew up in a communal apartment in Leningrad.
The Russian term is kommunalka.
- boarding houseResidence offering paid accommodation
- housing shortageLack of available dwellings
- dormitoryStudent living building
- social housingSubsidized rental accommodation
- rent controlHousing price regulation
neighborliness · co-housing · kibbutz · mutual aid · tenement · partition walls · nosy neighbors · close quarters · cooperation · social etiquette · conflict resolution · shared responsibility · housing subsidies · shared kitchen · public bathroom · row house · duplex · thin walls
communal apartmentssingle-family home
Freestanding residential dwelling
private residence · detached house · homeownership · private suite · condominium
communal apartmentsprivate property
Individually owned assets
luxury apartments · gated community · McMansion · condominium
communal apartmentsmansion
Large, stately home
estate · penthouse · villa · manor house · country house
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