[UmYeahNo]

Anyone know what this magical idea is?

Color me skeptical, but the deliberately vague strawman arguments in the post read between the lines to be something like: "If you're a homeowner we want to your equity and if your a renter we want your rent". I don't harbor any illusions that flow wants to help anyone but themselves.

I have no idea what flow actually is, but if it's something like "airbnb but permanent on the blockchain" like we work was "Airbnb but for your work desk", then no. Heck no.

[ethanbond]

Apartment buildings with amenities and probably an app to unlock your door. Incredible.

[vagabund]

facebook is just a forum where you use your real name

[cma]

My guess is it is a new way of quickly moving furniture so they can have you move locations every 29 days so you don't get any legal eviction protections. But your rent for this new venture buys into a blockchain ponzi scam and you get some kind of token out of it.

[phphphphp]

it is almost certainly some variation on co-living

[dangerlibrary]

"Why have 3 roommates in a house when you could have 300 roommates and live in a recently, cheaply converted commercial building designed to be a clone of the Googleplex?"

[phphphphp]

Co-living is actually pretty great when done properly: it’s not a solution to the housing crisis, and suffers from the same economic problems as WeWork did with office space, but as a resident, it’s great — assuming you want to live with other people.

Most co-living spaces end up going broke (including the one I’ve lived in) so I don’t have much faith in Flow’s viability if it is co-living… but it’d probably be great to live there on VC’s dime (just like WeWork was great when subsidised by VCs).

[ryanbrunner]

"Done properly" is probably highly correlated with a high degree of control and ownership (if not in a financial sense, in a sense of ownership and responsibility), both of which are extremely ill-suited to a large company running things nation-wide.

[OmarIsmail]

That actually sounds pretty cool! If that's _not_ what Flow is, I hope somebody does roll with that idea.

[phphphphp]

Already exists all over the world, just Google “co-living”!

[dominotw]

I think the one in US are just furnished rooms with some amenities like cleaning. These seem to be aimed at young people < 25 yrs.

I am looking for ones where all age groups live together. People with kids, young ppl , grandparents ect.