Real People Sharing Housing

Read about real people who are sharing housing. People of all ages, walks of life, and socio-economic categories.

From The Guardian in the UK, some more great stories about people who are home sharing. The elder homeowner  gets to remain living in their own home. The younger home seeker has a place to live usually in exchange for an agree upon amount of work. The six arrangements featured in the article will give you a sense of the different arrangements and particular ground rules in each situation.

 

 

Related Posts:

Be the first to comment

The New “Golden Girls” On NBC News

You know that when a big network news show covers a story, that story is becoming mainstream. So it is with the idea of adults living together. NBC interviewed four women and one man living together in a four-bedroom house in Asheville, NC. The interviews and footage show the housemates living the four advantages of [...]

Read the full article →

Comfort for the Young and Old

Here’s a really nice article by Simon Murphy in The Guardian about a HomeShare arrangement in London. It highlights the benefits of arrangement by describing how it works for 97-year old Barbara Clapham and 26-year old Beth Cooke. Beth has a low rent place to live in exchange for tasks that are easy for the [...]

Read the full article →

My House, Our Home: A NY Times article

“My House, Our Home” is the title of the excellent article by Emily Liedel in the NY Times blog “The New Old Age.”  She writes about 81-year-old Anna Novack who lives with her 45-year-old son and 65-year-old Antimina Garmley and how living together has improved the lives of all three residents. I don’t need to [...]

Read the full article →

He Took The Plunge

Thumbnail image for He Took The Plunge

“It’s the best thing I’ve done for myself in years.” This is what my friend Bruce said when I asked him how it was going with his housemate of five months. Bruce is in his late fifties, divorced with grown children. “I’d been bouncing about my big, two-story house for three years ever since the [...]

Read the full article →