Co-housing apartment

Co-housing: not for students (with a few exceptions).Students cannot register their official residence at a student housing address. As a result, they are not allowed to live in a family home or apartment where official residence registration is required. Therefore, co-housing projects are generally not intended for students, even if they would be sharing with working housemates.Why not?The regulations regarding official residence registration do not allow students to register at a standard residential address, such as a co-housing apartment.Only specific categories are exempt from this restriction.Exceptions to the rule:PhD studentsThey are not considered students for the purposes of official residence registration.They are therefore allowed to participate in co-housing arrangements that require official residence registration.Medical interns (medical students in clinical training)If you can demonstrate that you have sufficient financial resources, you can be registered in the population register.As a result, you are no longer considered a student.International studentsIf they are registered in the population register or the foreigners register and live together on a long-term basis (e.g. as a couple or family), they are not considered students.Students who are family members of each otherFor example, brothers and sisters or children from the same family who are students.They are allowed to live together in a family home without registering their official residence at that address.⚠️ Important: friends, partners, or fellow students of those students are not allowed to move in with them.

All residents are officially domiciled at the same address. They are registered in the population register as a household, even when no family ties exist. The household composition consists of one reference person, while the other residents are registered as 'unrelated'. In this manner, they reside together in a single house or apartment, comparable to a traditional family.