As the American dining room disappears from new residential construction, we are faced with a question, can our need for connection outweigh years of societal and economic shifts to preserve space for gathering?

Did you know that “it is illegal on 75 percent of the residential land in many American cities to build anything other than a detached single-family home”? This restrictive zoning, highlighted in a 2019 New York Times article, exacerbates our national housing crisis. But while zoning changes are coming, slowly, we don’t have to wait to create the housing we want to live in now. Maxing out allowable density is nothing new to developers. However, housing projects designed with community in mind is much more rare. There is a balance to be found between maximizing density and designing spaces for harmonious living. Crow Woods, a nine-unit cohousing community in development in Seattle, exemplifies this balance and shows how intentional, community-driven design can create not just housing but homes.

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In a podcast from October 2019, Ezra Klein interviewed former US surgeon general Vivek Murthy on the loneliness epidemic. The following piece is a response to and summary of their conversation.

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