Unrelated But Living Together: How Co-Living Is Building Communities
On a recent Friday, Rose Mark and a friend started cooking dinner mid-morning. She would need to make enough lasagna to feed dozens of people by the evening.
Twice a week, community members at Phoenix Commons in Oakland make dinner for each other, but this Friday dinner was special. Mark was celebrating the two-year anniversary of the opening of Phoenix Commons, a four-story, 41-unit senior co-housing facility along the Oakland estuary near the Park Street Bridge.
Mark, a writer, and her husband have been involved with the AEC Living-owned building since before the building's foundation was poured. Three years ago, she and her husband wanted to sell their Oakland home and move into communal housing to…
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