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	<description>The Complete Guide to Finding and Keeping Good Housemates</description>
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		<title>Why You Shouldn&#8217;t Have Sex with Your Roommate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Keeping Good Housemates]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My fourth principle for living with housemates successfully is &#8220;The Incest Taboo.&#8221; Here is an excellent first-person account of how easy it is to fall into to sleeping with your housemate. And then the heartache that follows.  It&#8217;s a scenario that is not uncommon as the comments make clear. Some think she should have stood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Simple Secrets to Roommate Bliss</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really like this post by Laura Drucker over on The Daily Muse. Her four simple secrets are a bit different from the four principles for successful home sharing described in &#8220;Sharing Housing, A Guidebook for Finding and Keeping Good Housemates&#8221; - but they aren&#8217;t far off. Her&#8217;s are: Share Your Baked Goods, Don&#8217;t Take Without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Solo—&#8221;Surprising Appeal of Living Alone&#8221;—Really?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I Share Housing?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend, I’ll call her Sarah, is a great example of the solo person in NYC. She lives alone. She loves it. She has built community around her in good friends, activities and an almost-weekly Friday evening at her local sushi bar. Like many of the people interviewed by Eric Klinenberg for his study and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the Homesharers: More Stories about Good Housemates</title>
		<link>http://www.sharinghousing.com/meet-the-homesharers-more-stories-about-good-housemates/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=meet-the-homesharers-more-stories-about-good-housemates</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Real People Sharing Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agreements]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Home Share programs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What the Fair Housing Act Means to You In a Housemate Situation</title>
		<link>http://www.sharinghousing.com/what-the-fair-housing-act-means-to-you-in-a-housemate-situation/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=what-the-fair-housing-act-means-to-you-in-a-housemate-situation</link>
		<comments>http://www.sharinghousing.com/what-the-fair-housing-act-means-to-you-in-a-housemate-situation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Finding Good Housemates]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sharinghousing.com/?p=2863</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You can’t write an ad that says you want to live with a female, gay person, Christian, or whatever category you might really care about. That’s illegal. The law says you may not make a public discriminatory statement about your preferences. While this may seem crazy, you do get to decide who you live with. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How She Found Financial Ease</title>
		<link>http://www.sharinghousing.com/how-she-found-financial-ease/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=how-she-found-financial-ease</link>
		<comments>http://www.sharinghousing.com/how-she-found-financial-ease/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finding Good Housemates]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sharinghousing.com/?p=2822</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When my friend Suzanne told me that I was responsible for her financial solvency, I asked her if she would write up her experience. Here it is. I have a roommate now! But, until somewhat recently, about 4 or so months ago, I had completely dismissed the idea of having a roommate. Not because I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listen to Podcast on Sharing Housing</title>
		<link>http://www.sharinghousing.com/listen-to-podcast-on-sharing-housing/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=listen-to-podcast-on-sharing-housing</link>
		<comments>http://www.sharinghousing.com/listen-to-podcast-on-sharing-housing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finding Good Housemates]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Book]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sharinghousing.com/?p=2796</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fransesca Rheannon, of The Writer&#8217;s Voice, is an excellent interviewer.  All the basics of about finding and keeping a good housemate are in the half-hour interview. You can listen to her half-hour interview of me here or download the podcast here. It&#8217;s an hour-long show, I&#8217;m the first half-hour.]]></description>
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		<title>The New &#8220;Golden Girls&#8221; On NBC News</title>
		<link>http://www.sharinghousing.com/the-new-golden-girls-on-nbc-news/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-new-golden-girls-on-nbc-news</link>
		<comments>http://www.sharinghousing.com/the-new-golden-girls-on-nbc-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real People Sharing Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I Share Housing?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retirement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retirement loneliness]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sharinghousing.com/?p=2781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comfort for the Young and Old</title>
		<link>http://www.sharinghousing.com/comfort-for-the-young-and-old/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=comfort-for-the-young-and-old</link>
		<comments>http://www.sharinghousing.com/comfort-for-the-young-and-old/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Real People Sharing Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seniors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I Share Housing?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Share programs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sharinghousing.com/?p=2663</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Your Children Are Your Housemates: Return of the Boomerang Kids</title>
		<link>http://www.sharinghousing.com/when-your-children-are-your-housemates-return-of-the-boomerang-kids/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=when-your-children-are-your-housemates-return-of-the-boomerang-kids</link>
		<comments>http://www.sharinghousing.com/when-your-children-are-your-housemates-return-of-the-boomerang-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annamarie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keeping Good Housemates]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doubling up]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ashley Grande tried to make it in Boston, the city of her dreams. She worked in town as a restaurant shift supervisor, earning $10 an hour for 40 hours a week, no overtime permitted. She lived humbly, sharing an apartment with three others her age. Each of the roommates paid $450 a month before utilities, [...]]]></description>
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