Unrelated But Living Together: How Co-Living Is Building Communities
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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. Bisnow/Julie Littman Phoenix Co…