The Living Room cultivates Bay Area writers, literary community, and productive dialogue in San Francisco with a focus on economic equity since October 2021. Founded by Kevin Dublin, the Living Room believes in people and the power of education, art, and community to make lasting positive changes in the world. The vision is to serve as an incubator and community-building program for writers to make being a full-time writer accessible by directly paying writers, and connecting them with other organizations which can provide economic opportunities as the cost-of-living rises and the artistic community recovers from the pandemic.