From the article she had an apartment years ago, but due to rising rents and stagnant wages over the years in the same area now she lives with in her boyfriend's parents' home and she and the boyfriend contribute rent back to the parents. I imagine part of it is her schedule is not the same as anyone else in the home, also due to her dietary needs, so possibly if she cooked it would be a lot of single serving meals/cooking.

It’s really common in some places to have underserved shelters. In nyc I was considered super lucky to have a stovetop with an oven. Also, subsidized housing has been historically undercared for.

Depends who you share it with. Some people think that a communal fridge means that everything inside it is communal.

Not everyone has the same boundaries for that situation.

Can you use the cracked pepper that someone else bought? People have different opinions on that.