Alysia Hamilton the speaker on the rise of co-living session
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The Rise of Co-Living, What Is It?

Straightening out the concept of collaborative coworking across the region, Coworking Alliance Asia Pacific (CAAP) organized a live webinar on the co-living world on June 07, 2017. The speaker, Alysia Hamilton is the founding team member for Roam Co-Living, the first global co-living provider with spaces in Bali, London, Miami, and Tokyo.

Alysia defined co-living as a new concept regarding the future housing. A co-living space facilitates people with a community, and individual slot to ensure home like environment even if it is for a short period. In a general sense, co-living is an approach to bring the community back together, have flexibility, be inspired by each other, and to not have so much stuff in one place yet have the opportunity to move around.

Roam is an apartment building where everybody has their private space at the same time has access to different community events. It welcomes families, travelers, and people who love the idea of moving from place to place and having the sense of community and home. It is the first global co-living provider who serves on three different continents.

Countering to the idea of competition with co-working space, Alysia explained that Roam offers space for week or month at a time. Therefore, people have more exposure to the community. Though Roamers(members of Roam) use co-living for different purposes, they need that option of a coworking space where they can solely work. Thus, the managing group at Roam integrated their experiences as Roamers and initiated a coworking space dedicated to the members only.

Talking about the challenges faced in the field, Alysia pointed out that Roam does not purchase the property but comes in as an operator. Consequently, it requires the team to have all the right licenses according to the region, which is often a very time-consuming process.

In the case of addressing customers, Alysia revealed that initially, they tried to attract people who were into their careers, who knew their needs and what Roam can provide. To filter their members, Roam has now initiated an application process which includes

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