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There are all sorts of people who decide to share housing. Many times people who are sharing housing don't think anything special about it. It's just how they live. But it you are considering the idea and are unsure, it can be helpful to read about how others are doing it. That's what this category is: stories of real people sharing housing.
“The best part is the deep friendship we’ve created,” says Wendi Burkhardt, CEO of Silvernest. Silvernest is a service that helps seniors share housing. As part of developing the Silvernest business, …
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“Oh yes, living alone is awful,” Moira said to me when we met at the Positive Aging conference in August. Moira strongly believes in the power of shared housing for seniors. Moira lives on the Left …
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Location, location. Nancy, 74, has the desire of her retirement. She lives in a small New England college town where she can walk to her activities, do errands on foot, and pays just $460 a …
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June is very selective in her housemates. She lives in San Fransisco in a two bedroom apartment where she has has multiple housemates since she moved in in 2004. She knows how to find a good …
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Harriotte herself is so capable, enthusiastic, warm and independent that it is easy to forget she is blind. As she says, “my friends will leave me on a curb” not remembering that she can’t see. She …
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Susan and Josephine are newish home-mates, they’ve lived together for three months. Both were actively looking for the other when they met. Susan had already rented a large house in the bay area in …
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