Living Rooms | The Walrus

Tiny Homes Won’t Fix the Housing Crisis

November 25, 2020 - by Cristina D'Amico

They’re often touted as a path to affordable housing. But the scale of the problem calls for a bigger solution

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Black and white illustration of a room corner, done in a pointillist style. There are two doorways: one leads to an airplane, the other to a forest and riverbank. A suitcase waits by the door.

You Can’t Run Away from Homesickness

November 18, 2020November 18, 2020 - by Melissa J. Gismondi

What it means to miss home in our globalized, climate-changed world

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Artwork of half a dozen clay figures in an apartment room, performing various activities: assembling a chair, sweeping, looking at a cell phone, boxing with one another, and trying to enter the apartment.

The Rise of the Roommate

November 11, 2020November 12, 2020 - by Kelli María Korducki

Burnt-out and debt-ridden, my generation is poised to change the household as we know it—maybe even for the better

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