Locate a suitable dwelling among opaque options
Housing is heterogeneous, scattered, and its true condition and price are hard to see.
Where Scarce time meets Household formation. There are a fixed number of hours and they cannot be stored. Almost every convenience business is a time trade: delivery, childcare, cleaning, automation. Time scarcity is felt hardest where two obligations overlap — a parent who must both earn and supervise, a fifty-year-old wit…
4 frictions
Physically move two lives into one dwelling
Possessions, furniture, and duplicates have to be transported, merged, or discarded.
3 solutions built for it
Get from the dwelling to work and family
Where you can afford to live is rarely where you work.
3 solutions built for it
Car ownership, Public transit and Autonomous vehicles and robotaxis.
Coordinate two schedules, chores, and money in one dwelling
Daily friction most couples simply absorb.