A new study suggests that the housing crisis is a major factor contributing to the loneliness experienced by millennials and Gen Z. The lack of affordable and suitable housing options has forced many young people to live in overcrowded and tense environments, leading to increased feelings of isolation. Experts emphasize the importance of creating safe and inviting spaces to combat this issue.
"Making sure that those spaces are adequate, that they're not overcrowded, that they don't become sites of tension, is also really important," Holt-Lunstad said.
Erin Peavey, the health and wellbeing design leader at the architecture firm HKS, said becoming a mother opened her eyes to"the monumental impact that my built environment made on what it allowed me to do or not." In her work, Peavey has come up with six design strategies for creating third spaces — places that aren't home, work, or school — to facilitate social connection. They include making public spaces accessible, engaging, unique, and green. Having benches, murals or other art, and businesses that are open at various times of day and night all help attract and keep people in these spaces.
And denser, more walkable communities with high-quality public spaces are much more expensive to live in. Home buyers in the biggest cities in the US pay 35% more to live in a walkable neighborhood and renters pay 41% more, according toOn the flipside, in less dense areas, people are more likely to have their own backyards and less of a need for shared green spaces, Kent said.
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