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How Housing Codes Encourage Lonely Living

Americans once addressed this problem in a practical way. Young households would take in lodgers; older adults, often widows, would rent out rooms both for income and help around the house.

Vilhelm Hammershøi, 'Ida in an Interior with Piano,' detail, 1901.
Vilhelm Hammershøi, 'Ida in an Interior with Piano,' detail, 1901. Via Wikimedia Commons.