Said to be the an 18-story "dorm for adults" the co-living startup Starcity aims to "redefining the meaning of home." The co-founder and CEO Jon Dishotsky is an advocate for co-living due to his upbringing in suburban Palo Alto. If asked about his upbringing, Dishotsky will share the story of growing up in a co-housing compound thanks to his Stanford professor dad who would often host students during the years. With this upbringing Dishotsky believes this model of creating housing developments with this method of co-living will help "fill America's housing-strapped cities with scaled up versions of his childhood idyll."

After launching in 2016, Dishotsky and his team have already broke ground on seven developments in Los Angeles and San Francisco. However, Starcity will be the largest. Aiming to attract renters with "Millennial-friendly amenities" individuals who decided to live in these spaces with get a furnished 130- to 220-square-foot bedroom and share a communal kitchen and living space."

Starcity isn't the first startup to offer communal themed living. Groups like Bungalow, WeLive, and The Collective have all tapped into this version of housing. With the cost of rent increasing in several major cities across the U.S. will people jump into this type of living environment or has the general public outgrown this lifestyle reminiscent of dorm room life?

However, according to the company's site"...most co-housing developments don’t promote themselves as the cheapest bed in town: For that, finding a group home and cramming it with roommates can cost less, and you’ll still get to share spatulas and swap grunted hellos at the end of the workday. Instead, they’re pitching community-building as both a luxe amenity and a salve for the Bay Area’s tech-fueled social isolation. Life in a Starcity building is meant to be less stressful (no router installation or Ikea shopping!), have better feng shui, and, crucially, encourage you to be more social. “It’s a ‘put your phone down, have a conversation’ kind of place”