SPAAR’s book club is back in session!

SPAAR’s fall housing book club is back with Brave New Home by Diana Lind. The book club will kick off on Thursday, October 22, at 8am through November 19, and each session will meet via Zoom.

Brave New Home looks at how American demographics and social norms have shifted dramatically over the past century. More people are living alone, marrying later in life and having smaller families. At the same time, their lifestyles are changing, whether by choice or by force, to become more virtual, more mobile and less stable. But despite the ways that today's America is different and more diverse, housing still looks stuck in the 1950s.

In Brave New Home, Diana Lind shows why a country full of single-family houses is bad for us and our planet, and details the new efforts underway that better reflect the way we live now, to ensure that the way we live next is both less lonely and more affordable.

Lind takes readers into the homes and communities that are seeking alternatives to the American norm, from multi-generational living, in-law suites, and co-living to microapartments, tiny houses, and new rural communities. Brave New Home offers a diagnosis of the current American housing crisis and a radical re-imagining of future possibilities.”

For more information about SPAAR’s Housing Book Club, or to participate in this upcoming book club, please reach out to SPAAR Government Affairs Director, Simon Opatz at sopatz@spaar.com.