The £25-a-week dinner party life that's changing how we eat

On any given evening in Rosie Kellett's east London warehouse, you might find IO housemates clustered around a battered kitchen table, passing plates of chickpea stew, candles flickering in jam jars, a record playing somewhere in the background.

- Hannah Twiggs, The Independent

If you're lucky, there'll be a “late plate” in the fridge — a silent promise that whatever the night holds, a hot dinner with your name on it will be waiting when you get home. It sounds like the sort of communal living that might briefly flourish in a university flatshare. But here, it’s different.

The house runs on a shared kitty, a cooking rota and an unspoken philosophy of looking after each other — a model that has quietly become a blueprint for how young adults can still carve out an affordable, joyful life in a city that seems increasingly hostile to both.