The project explores how collaborative housing projects are embedded in neighbourhoods and how these are linked to practices and spatial resources of family housing.  

Collaborative Housing often is described as experimental fields for the transformation of care work (Spellerberg 2021) as well as living and urban transformations (Id 2022, Tummers 2016). However, these functions and especially their relationships have not yet been sufficiently empirically researched. The interdisciplinary project researches practices and spatial resources of family housing using the example of selected collaborative housing forms and non-collaborative structured forms of housing and how they are related to neighborhood and the surrounding areas. The project examines, the extent to which collaborative housing contributes to the formation of locally anchored support networks for families and extended families. In doing so, the project combines approaches from family, housing and urban research. The focus is on the interrelation of residential and urban transformations with changed social relationships, a topic that has so far received little attention in research, housing policies and practice. The starting point of the project are societal transformations through which family care increasingly require local networks of care that extend beyond the nuclear family, and through which, at the same time, family housing needs are differentiating and housing forms are changing.

Subproject TP02: within the research cluster "ForFamily", funded by the Bayrischen Forschungsverbünde, in cooperation with Deutsches Jugendinstitut (DJI)