Revisiting the Shifting of Residential Environments Post Pandemic COVID-19

The Covid-19 pandemic, which began at the end of 2019 and continued until the end of 2022, resulted in over 775 million cases and 7 million deaths globally. In Indonesia, there were 6.8 million recorded cases with more than 162 thousand deaths. This pandemic forced people to adapt to a new lifestyle, known as the new normal, which impacted daily life, especially in residential environments. However, since the pandemic was declared over in mid-2023, there has been no significant change or shift in behaviors compared to during the pandemic. A key factor in the reversion to pre-pandemic behaviors is the reduced concern about the pandemic and its fatality rate. This is evidenced by people’s movement returning to previous levels and the absence of health-supporting infrastructure in public places that were present during the pandemic. Researchers are therefore interested in understanding how adaptations in housing and settlement environments have persisted since the pandemic ended. This research was conducted to identify the continuity of societies’ various adaptations after the Covid-19 pandemic. Exploration was carried out using content analysis of news on the internet and related media, compared with real conditions occurring in the field. The expected result is to explain whether the various adaptations carried out by communities around housing and residential areas during the COVID-19 pandemic are still being implemented today. It is hoped that these results can help inspire the implementation of the new normal in residential environments and consideration of future residential design and planning in anticipation of similar conditions.