The mission of The HomeSharing Program is two-fold: one, to enable older homeowners to maintain their own homes, thereby avoiding relocation to retirement or nursing homes; two, to secure safe, affordable housing for students and workers in the community who are willing and able to assist the older homeowners.

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The purposes: The primary purpose of HomeSharing is to pool the personal and financial resources by two or more unrelated individuals who share a home. Through sharing, mutual assistance is accomplished in areas of personal finance, household responsibilities, yard and home chores, transportation, companionship, and personal security.

HomeSharing involves mutual assistance between private individuals; therefore, public resources such as income and rent subsidies, public housing, in-home meal delivery, and publicly supported homemaker services are conserved.

Principal beneficiaries of HomeSharing include elderly and middle-aged home providers, the newly divorced or widowed, low wage-earners, young people just out on their own, and students of all ages who are continuing or desire to continue their education.

HomeSharing means different things to different people. The common denominator is a matched arrangement between a Homeprovider and a Homesharer to the advantage of each.

The HomeSharing Program can bring together Homesharers in need of lower cost housing with Homeproviders who can provide a private bedroom in exchange for rent or for home chore work.

Homesharers are of a wide range of ages, most are younger, some are middle aged, few are older or retired. Many are students, others are going through career changes or loss of spouse that makes it necessary for them to seek a low-cost shared housing arrangement.

Homeproviders can live in apartments or houses, rented or owned, and are of all ages. Many are retired or elderly, with a variety of needs, both financial and home chore related. Others are middle-aged or younger, single, married, widowed or divorced, some with children, who may also be experiencing career changes or loss of spouse and need help with chores or want to rent a room to help with expenses.

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