Translations:Shared Apartments/10/en

Households frequently develop informal signalling systems over time: a message sent before arriving home, a closed door understood as a request for privacy, a shared calendar for longer visits. These are rarely designed deliberately. They tend to emerge, and they work well when everyone reads them the same way.

| Safety=Shared apartments introduce considerations that do not arise in private homes. A visitor gains proximity not only to the host but to people who did not participate in the decision, along with their belongings, routines, and personal information. Responsibility for that proximity is generally understood to rest with the resident who invited the guest.