GirlCrew is a Tinder-like network for women to make new friends, find mentors, and get professional support. Hundreds of women have already signed up ahead of the US launch, showing how they're open to turning to apps to forge new relationships in their personal lives, too.

Traditional social structures can seem inconveniently binary for some individuals – not everyone wants to be part of a nuclear family or search for the right partner with whom to raise a child. How do friends, family and strangers now fit into marriages, support networks and parenting choices?

Gen Yers have swapped suburbia for city life in their version of the American Dream. But with skyrocketing rent costs, shrinking square footage and a lonesome lifestyle, urban living isn’t always easy. Commonspace is a living solution for some of the sore spots of city life.

The UK’s loneliness epidemic is widely considered something that affects the elderly the most, but research suggests young Britons are disproportionately affected. With a dwindling sense of community laying at loneliness' dark heart, a generation rent are struggling more than their elders.