New parents with a big community in Oakland California
19 Adults and 4 Babies Call This Cozy Commune in Oakland Home
apartmenttherapy.com
kev added
finally a commune with babies. about the balance between shared and private spaces.
a community of friends and neighbors that provide both safety net and spring board—support when things are hard, and celebration when things are especially good. We, in turn, provide those things for them.
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
Having friends in close proximity transforms a generic neighborhood into an extended home.
Kat Vellos • We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships
Daniel Wentsch and added
Try to make friends with families who live within walking distance from you, whether you consider walking distance to be one block or ten.
Kat Vellos • We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships
Walkable neighborhoods where an intergenerational mix of community members can bump into each other while they carry out the most frequent journeys of daily life (work, school, play, food, etc.) are the best way for people to see each other.
Kat Vellos • We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships
the importance of picking your neighborhood
open.substack.com
kev added
this was probably amongst the biggest challenges to helping US neighborhoods come together: most people don’t have good reasons to meet their neighbors.