Co-housing; sharing and caring…..

In modernised world many societies are built in an urban area to bring more people in from regional areas. People are offered living space, room for a car and storage to store the stuff that is unwanted on a daily basis. In many urban units storage is offered along with the car space. A question comes to my mind when thinking about sustainable cities and sustainable living that why do we need so many car space and so much of a storage space? Why don’t we offer shared car, shared equipment’s similar to shared laundry for example vacuum cleaner or gardening equipment’s in case of strata townhouses. So much of a money, time and waste can be saved through creating shared co-housing communities. This will not only help people with financial burden but will also be able to bring them together and make connection with their neighbours while sharing equipment’s and get to know each other compare to current set up where hardly anyone knows who is living next door.  So much of a car space is wasted at the basement of the strata units or townhouses and living areas are much smaller than before. Can we not change the way we have been building houses? Can we not change the behaviour of people by offering such shared settings? Can we not reduce our waste through following simple stuff and stop using unnecessary scares resources just to boom economy?