EditorialHarper Finn, who rents an apartment with two roommates at Front & York in Dumbo, Brooklyn on Dec. 3, 2022. He has used the music room in the building to write 10 songs. (Katherine Marks/The New York Times)
EditorialHarper Finn, who rents an apartment with two roommates at Front & York in Dumbo, Brooklyn on Dec. 3, 2022. He has used the music room in the building to write 10 songs. (Katherine Marks/The New York Times)
EditorialCaroline Lewis and her roommates are likely abandoning the apartment they landed for $3,300 a month in 2020. (Clark Hodgin/The New York Times)
EditorialDanilo Jimenez, who put saving for retirement on hold in favor of spending that money on weekend trips and moving out of his parents’ home to live with roommates, in New York, April 30, 2022. (Kholood Eid/The New York Times)
EditorialAhnaf Islam, 24, left, chats with his roommate, Owise Abuzaid, on their apartment building roof in Brooklyn on Nov. 25, 2020. (Amr Alfiky/The New York Times)
EditorialAfter a stressful summer, Destiny Moura, who lost her stable living arrangement because of the outbreak, has moved into a dorm space in Queens with roommates and a kitchen. (James Estrin/The New York Times)
EditorialAnzhela Kirillova, who tried to warn her roommates about the dangers of living so close together during the coronavirus pandemic, near her home in St. Petersburg, Russia, May 30, 2020. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)
EditorialAtef Gerges, an Egyptian migrant worker living in Jordan, watches Egyptian movies with his brother inside their home, a one-room converted storage room in the garage of a residential building in Amman on April 11, 2020. (Moises Saman/The New York Times)
EditorialEliana Figueiredo de Almeida, left, and her daughter, Ana Claudia Almeida dos Santos, at home in Itacare, Brazil, April 18, 2020. (Cristina De Middel/The New York Times)
EditorialMarissa Crider, who has mandated strict rules for her roommates to try to protect everyone from contracting the coronavirus, in New York on Sunday, March 22, 2020.(Sarah Blesener/The New York Times)
EditorialMarissa Crider, who has mandated strict rules for her roommates to try to protect everyone from contracting the coronavirus, in New York on Sunday, March 22, 2020.(Sarah Blesener/The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left: Francis Kelly, Topher Mykolyk and Dani Marcus at their apartment in the Hamilton Heights neighborhod of Manhattan, where they have been roommates together for over 12 years, Jan. 21, 2020. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
EditorialClinton Yebga, center, from Cameroon, has dinner with his roommates at a temporary camp in Kofinou, Cyprus on Nov. 20, 2019. (Laura Boushnak/The New York Times)