Isolation

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• The organization is asking everyone to take action by visiting www.savelunch.org to send a direct message to your Members of Congress, urging them to protect and increase funding for Meals on Wheels services.
• This appropriations deadline coincides with the one-year anniversary of the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health and the administration's commitment to increase federal funding for programs like Meals on Wheels and end hunger by 2030.
• Approximately 37% of local Meals on Wheels program funding comes from the federal government, primarily through the Older Americans Act.
• In fact, one in three programs has a waiting list with seniors spending an average of three months waiting for vital meals.

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• Students are faced with a variety of new options, different from their parents’ dorm rooms.
• Previous research has found a lack of student socialization spaces negatively affects students’ academic performance and well-being.

Space affects academic performance and well-being

• Firstly, students’ proximity to campus matters for developing positive relations with faculty and with the campus community.
• Paradoxically, both universities with private partners and private developers alone are marketing increased privacy in student accommodations, in response to perceived demand.
• Many privacy-oriented apartments house only one or two students, but privacy is a questionable benefit for students.

Measuring privacy

• To study students’ experience of privacy and socialization, we developed a scale of six levels, called the Hierarchy of Isolation and Privacy in Architecture Tool (HIPAT).
• In a second study we created a taxonomy to classify students’ rooms and living facilities defined by their lived experience, called Housing Unit Classification (HUC).

Inhibiting resilient networks

• Over half the residences (23) were selected for more detailed study of privacy and socialization opportunities, and how they changed over time.
• Describing the privacy and socialization spaces of each residence permits us to classify how much the built space of residences enable students to socialize with new people and create resilient networks.


Reports on student housing construction show that there is a trend towards building more suites and apartments. These are not built with the common spaces of traditional residences that have historically facilitated socialization and been positively associated with higher GPA and well-being.

Privacy is not a luxury

• Student residences built in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom over the past 20 years prioritize privacy and risk isolation to accommodate perceived student preferences.
• This trend is to the detriment of students’ social spaces, and should be questioned.
• Universities and developers need to focus on building student housing that fosters community building in order for socialization and new relationships to occur.