We’ve been busy.
Some of the changes we’ve rolled out recently are new features. Others are part of a bigger shift in how people live, search for housing, and connect with roommates.
More homeowners are opening spare rooms. Shared homes are getting bigger. Housing costs are pushing roommate living well beyond the usual expensive cities. And when someone reaches out about a room, people increasingly expect the conversation to be quick and easy.
Here are a few of the bigger updates we’ve made recently — and why we think they matter.
More Rooms, More Choices — and Up to 3 Listings Free
Roommate living used to bring to mind two people splitting a two-bedroom apartment.
That’s changing.
More homeowners are opening their homes to renters. Larger houses are being shared by three, four, or more people. And the growth of coliving has helped make shared housing less about simply splitting the rent and more about living with people who share similar lifestyles, values, or expectations for the home.
Diggz is evolving with that.
If you have multiple available rooms in the same household, you can now create up to three separate room listings for free.
Each room can have its own price, availability, lease duration, description, and photos. That makes it easier to show renters exactly what’s available instead of trying to squeeze several different rooms into one listing.
And if you’re looking for a place, it means more rooms, more price points, and more options within the same home.
Many rental and roommate platforms charge listers for additional rooms or listings. We’d rather make it easier for homeowners, renters, and small shared households to put their available rooms in front of the people who might be a good fit.
For now, the three rooms need to be within the same household or property. Multi-property owners and larger operators can work with Diggz through our Pro accounts.
Less Ghosting: Reply to Diggz Messages Right From Your Email
Finding a room or roommate usually involves reaching out to several people.
And one of the most frustrating parts of that process is getting no response at all.
Sometimes people aren’t intentionally ghosting. They see an email notification while they’re busy, mean to come back to it later, and forget. Other times, having to open another website, log in, find the conversation, and then reply is just enough friction to put it off.
So we removed that friction.
You can now reply to incoming Diggz messages directly from your email app.
Whether you use Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, or another email client, just hit Reply. There’s no need to visit Diggz or log in first.
Your response is delivered to the other person and also saved in your Diggz Inbox, so the full conversation remains available on the platform.
This works both ways: whether you’re trying to fill an available room or looking for somewhere to live, replying is now as easy as responding to any other email.
Why We Built It This Way
Diggz has always included the actual message in your email notification.
We don’t hide the message behind a “log in to read” button, and we don’t charge you just to see what someone sent.
Many roommate and rental platforms are designed to bring you back to their website every time someone contacts you. We’d rather optimize for something different: helping two people actually connect.
Letting you reply directly from your inbox is another step toward making Diggz a more transparent and human way to find housing.
Sometimes the response is “I’d love to talk.”
Sometimes it’s simply “Sorry, the room is taken.”
Both are better than silence.
Diggz Now Covers More Than 1,600 Cities and Communities
Roommate living isn’t just a New York, Los Angeles, or San Francisco thing anymore.
Housing costs have risen across the country, and we’re increasingly seeing people look for roommates and rooms in places that historically weren’t thought of as major shared-housing markets.
That demand is one of the reasons we’ve been expanding Diggz much more aggressively.
Diggz now covers 70 major metro areas plus 1,571 additional cities, towns, and suburbs across the United States and Canada.
That means someone searching outside a major downtown — whether in a suburb, secondary city, college town, or growing regional market — has a much better chance of finding a local Diggz search experience instead of being told their city isn’t available.
Recent additions include Birmingham, Charleston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, and Tucson, with coliving options already available in Cleveland, Detroit, and Tucson.
You can explore everywhere we currently support on our Diggz locations page.
And we’re continuing to add more.
Our goal is simple: if people in a community are looking for a more affordable way to live, have a spare room they want to fill, or simply prefer sharing a home, Diggz should be useful there.
Shared Housing Is Changing. We’re Changing With It.
These updates may seem different from one another, but they’re all connected.
Shared housing is becoming more varied. It can mean two roommates teaming up for an apartment, a homeowner renting two spare bedrooms, a group sharing a large house, or someone moving into a professionally managed coliving community.
At the same time, people expect finding that housing to be easier, safer, and less frustrating.
So we’re focused on removing unnecessary friction: more rooms to choose from, more ways to list them, easier conversations, and Diggz searches in more places.
There’s plenty more we’ve been working on behind the scenes, and we’ll continue sharing the bigger updates here as they roll out.