Demographic Research Journal’s issue, Living Alone: One-person household in Asia (2015), addresses one-person household as the fastest growing living situation in the world. The current social welfare system and institutions fall short of supporting one-person households. However, the distribution and utilisation of resources are limited to and facilitated for an ideal family household. English Housing reforms of 1851 saw a shift from public to private in labouring classes, with common (living) room within the home taking on the function that was previously considered public. The outside moved into the house, and so did the responsibility to develop one’s subject. Robin Evans’ in Rookeries and model dwellings, points this out: “Part of their purpose was to absorb society from public places into private places, …, to give a moral structure to public space”. This re-positioned the common lodge house to the home we know today. Henry Roberts’ Model House for Four Families, clearly organises rooms that permit preserving the privacy of members within the family, simultaneously reinforcing the authority of parents and the family as technology to govern the moral development of individuals.
