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A TBA name refers to a institutional housing collective common across the Solidarist world and in most countries form the backbone of their housing stock. Similar to co-housing settlements, TBAs usually feature several shared spaces such as a lounge area, a dinning hall, and a laundromat, utilities and joint storage, but more recent, larger or region-specific TBAs may also include childcare services, recreation and home-entertainment facilities, parking lots, telecentres, a gym and even swimming pools, while individual housing units may still preserve their own amenities such as private kitchens. TBAs are distinguished from traditional co-housing and housing co-operatives in the Serial world by the institutionalized role they play as a social unit to manage collective provisioning, drive community engagement, promote gender equality by socialising child-rearing, and providing multigenerational third places for people from multiple walks of life to interact with each other, and are generally conceived as the smallest social unit in solidarist societies as opposed to contemporary family structures.

Traditionally, especially during the early Postbellum, TBAs were often associated mixed-use, multi-residential units which often ranged from Template:Wpduplex (building) to tower blocks, but in Elia Australis and Hylasia in particular most commonly took the form of mid-rise flats, with common facilities usually found on the bottom-most floors. Given the emphasis on mixed-use development it is also not uncommon for the bottom-most floors to host producer cooperatives who usually provide essential community goods and services, such as pharmaceutical drugs, childcare, cinemas and distribution centres, with these services are usually manned by workers who live in the TBA themselves.