“…Like a large segment of the US population, tiny housers are increasingly living in neighborhoods highly segregated by race, income, and social class (Thal 2017). Trust in communities and neighborly relations, especially in urban and suburban settings, has declined (Garoon et al 2016;Yeo and Green 2017), and average network sizes, while remaining stable across different age groups (Smith et al 2018), have also shrunk over the past few decades. Social isolation remains common (Klinenberg 2018), especially among older individuals who are at higher risk due to "living alone, being widowed, poor health, psychological distress, economic deprivation, poor social skills, and cognitive impairment" (Parigi and Henson 2014).…”