Cohousing mention on the Ezra Klein podcast

Ezra Klein’s guest Sheila Liming endorses cohousing as a solution to the loneliness crisis on a recent show (around minute 23):

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-sheila-liming.html

It’s a spot-on discussion of the social conditions that give rise to the crisis. And yet . . .

Amazing to me that Ezra Klein, who has so much cultural awareness (motivated by being the host of a podcast that deals with diverse topics) had no idea what cohousing is. Never heard of it. And then, when the author describes it, it doesn’t even seem to register with him. Instead of expressing interest as a potential solution to the problems being discussed, he starts talking about how no self-respecting 40-something would want to live in a group home akin to a college dormitory.

The writer just described how cohousing is not like that at all.

The interview deals with atomization, hypermobility, lack of proximity, lack of continuity, lack of sense of place. Anyone in our movement would listen and want to yell out about how the communitarian solution is vital, urgent.

But it’s antithetical to American-style socialization.