community living
Group household arrangement
Community living is a residential arrangement where people with disabilities, mental illness, or other support needs live in regular homes within neighborhoods rather than institutions.
The model emphasizes integration into ordinary life—sharing apartments, group homes, or supported housing while receiving assistance with daily activities.
After years in the state hospital, she transitioned to community living.
The term reflects a shift away from warehousing vulnerable populations in isolated facilities.
- cohousingIntentional community with shared amenities
- shared housingResidence with multiple occupants
- kibbutzimIsraeli communal settlements
- mutual aidCooperative community support
- cooperationJoint action toward shared aims
good neighbors · front porch · potluck dinner · communication barriers · housing cooperatives · Hutterite · sustainability · equity · power dynamics · privacy concerns · interdependence · land trust · solidarity · neighborhood associations · group home · communes · inclusivity · ecovillages
- monasticismabbeys, abbey, abbots, abbot, cloister
- monasteriesabbey, abbeys, abbot, abbots, abbess
- religious lifereligious vows, religious sisters, religious habit, novitiate, motherhouse
- residential careresidential care, nursing homes, group homes, foster homes, residential treatment
- Anabaptist traditionsadult baptism, plain dress, foot washing, nonresistance, shunning
- monastic lifecelibacy, cloister, habit, vespers, obedience
community livingliving alone
Residing without cohabitants
hermit lifestyle · social isolation · independent living · single occupancy · private residence
community livingself-reliance
Depending on oneself alone
individualism · self-sufficiency · going it alone · fending for oneself
community livingsolitary confinement
Isolated imprisonment in cell
institutionalization · incarceration · nursing home · prison · asylum