Spokane Public Radio: ‘The fruits of our labor’: How cohousing in Spokane is growing neighbors, fighting loneliness, and saving money

Certain crises are decades in the making. Housing is one of them. An epidemic of loneliness is another.

While the single family home remains a fixture of the American dream, some people are challenging that picture.

Cohousing is a style of neighborhood where residents have their own private homes but share common spaces and buildings. 

Advocates of cohousing say their vision could help fight loneliness while building more housing on less land—which could be good news for the climate, too.

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