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Lesson Plan: Loneliness Is on the Rise. Are Closer Neighbors a Solution?

Even before the Covid pandemic shut down schools, closed businesses and introduced the idea of social distancing, medical experts were seeing an alarming increase in Americans struggling with isolation. The U.S. surgeon general has called this trend an epidemic of loneliness, as harmful to health as smoking cigarettes. Now some Americans are embracing a collaborative living arrangement called cohousing as a solution.

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