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The Social House Will Not Reopen - by Andrew Miller

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Third places, rising rents, and loneliness

The Social House Will Not Reopen Third places, rising rents, and loneliness Andrew Miller Apr 14, 2026 38 1 11 Share Changing Lanes usually covers innovative mobility. This week’s piece is a detour: local, personal, and less policy-heavy than usual. Regular programming resumes next week. For the first time ever, we couldn’t get a seat at the bar. The Long Branch Social House was packed, as full as we’d ever seen it. Instead of sitting in our usual place, we found an available table (one of only two) and settled in. Our server T came over, and we asked him, in all innocence, what was happening

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