What makes shared living work is not luck. It is design. Shared Living By Design is a practical guide to designing, evaluating, and optimizing group homes, shared housing, and high-occupancy residential properties. Dr. Hunter T. Foote shows owners, operators, investors, nonprofit leaders, and housing professionals how to stop guessing and start seeing a property as a system. Flow, privacy, bed capacity, bathrooms, kitchens, storage, circulation, and common spaces all shape whether a shared home feels calm and functional or crowded and chaotic.
This is not a book about décor or design theory. It is a field-tested blueprint for making better property decisions: how to increase capacity responsibly, improve layout and circulation, reduce daily friction, evaluate code-aware constraints, and create homes that support both dignity and long-term performance. Inside, readers will learn how to: Evaluate a property for shared living potential Improve flow in kitchens, bathrooms, hallways, bedrooms, and common areas Add beds responsibly without breaking the home Balance privacy, community, and real-life livability Identify bottlenecks before they become operational problems Plan around capacity, amenities, storage, and shared-space pressure Make smarter layout decisions with codes, constraints, and daily use in mind Whether you are working with group homes, transitional housing, student housing, workforce housing, faith-based housing, sober living, recovery housing, or another shared living model, this book gives you a repeatable framework for turning ordinary buildings into higher-functioning homes.
If you are preparing to acquire a property, renovate an existing home, increase capacity, or rethink how shared space should function, Shared Living By Design will help you create housing that works better for everyone who lives there.
What makes shared living work is not luck. It is design. Shared Living By Design is a practical guide to designing, evaluating, and optimizing group homes, shared housing, and high-occupancy residential properties. Dr. Hunter T. Foote shows owners, operators, investors, nonprofit leaders, and housing professionals how to stop guessing and start seeing a property as a system. Flow, privacy, bed capacity, bathrooms, kitchens, storage, circulation, and common spaces all shape whether a shared home feels calm and functional or crowded and chaotic.
This is not a book about décor or design theory. It is a field-tested blueprint for making better property decisions: how to increase capacity responsibly, improve layout and circulation, reduce daily friction, evaluate code-aware constraints, and create homes that support both dignity and long-term performance. Inside, readers will learn how to: Evaluate a property for shared living potential Improve flow in kitchens, bathrooms, hallways, bedrooms, and common areas Add beds responsibly without breaking the home Balance privacy, community, and real-life livability Identify bottlenecks before they become operational problems Plan around capacity, amenities, storage, and shared-space pressure Make smarter layout decisions with codes, constraints, and daily use in mind Whether you are working with group homes, transitional housing, student housing, workforce housing, faith-based housing, sober living, recovery housing, or another shared living model, this book gives you a repeatable framework for turning ordinary buildings into higher-functioning homes.
If you are preparing to acquire a property, renovate an existing home, increase capacity, or rethink how shared space should function, Shared Living By Design will help you create housing that works better for everyone who lives there.
