9 ways to reduce loneliness in your community

Community solutions to the loneliness epidemic have been top of mind at Shareable. In fact, we’ve dedicated a good bit of our reporting to it this year. Shareable’s executive director, Neal Gorenflo, outlined the problem as did Marvin Brown in his article, “Why we need a change in climate”, and Monée Fields-White shared her perspective in, “Can we build non-sexist and non-racist cities?”

After outlining the challenge, we proposed that community involvement is an accessible, effective solution to loneliness. Then, we offered examples of how communities are coming together all over the world. For example, Japan is connecting youth and seniors and the UK government has created a minister for loneliness. In addition, Libraries of Things bring people together, On the Table hosts shared meals, and the Participatory City Foundation helps people create neighborhood projects.

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