Commune is the first coliving dedicated to single-parent families. With Commune, the goal is to make life easier for these parents and children who are too often let down, by creating a community where all single parents and their children can thrive. Commune offers a pragmatic and necessary turnkey housing solution, which simplifies parental organisation and best meets the needs of children.
Commune was born from the observation that lifestyles and times had changed, but housing had not followed. For several decades, the model of the nuclear family and a unique household is no longer the norm, but rather the exception. XXIst century families are diverse and unique at the same time, facing very specific needs at certain points in their lives.
Breakups are part of them. While one in four families is single-parent in France in 2021 and half of married couples divorce, single parents are more and more numerous and Commune helps them to relocate and find a balance for themselves and their children.
Tara & Ruben met back in 2017, when they had just finished their studies. After pursuing international careers, notably in tech and the hotel industry, Ruben and Tara met again in 2021 around the desire to create new opportunities and recreate social ties for people too often isolated and forgotten by the networks and social public policies: single parents and their children. This is how the idea of the first coliving exclusively dedicated to single-parent families emerged, and the Commune coliving company was born a few months later.
Together, Tara & Ruben speak 8 languages (9 if we include Frenglish!), have lived in 10 countries on 5 continents, testing different concepts of community living along the way: roommating, student housing and coliving!
At the core of our company, we have the desire to support a more empathetic world, by investing in three values: transmission, generosity, and dignity. Commune aligns with this approach by offering a solution to families in need of stabilisation, and helping them face societal change with a shared support system in a welcoming space.
A project rooted in values and which addresses a real need for single-parent families. A great team, extremely friendly and competent, capable of bringing on board anyone who talks with them for 10 minutes. Commune is part of a vision of the world that speaks to me and to which I am proud to contribute at my little level.
With the rise of impact funds, we need initiatives like the one proposed by Commune to direct this capital towards virtuous projects.
Because it takes a village to raise children… and because I had never seen this village until I crossed paths with Tara, and Commune. Because 82% of single-parent families are made up of single mothers and their children. Because entrepreneurs like Tara and Ruben, who know how to put their training and talents at the service of an ambition greater than all of us, are precious.
Commune will change the lives of single-parent families by providing them with the services and home they need.
I have long been convinced that we need to re-invent ‘living together’, especially in the city. Coliving is one of the solutions. It is a pleasure to support Tara and Ruben in their adventure and to help them deploy their vision for single-parent families.
