Our Story
HomeShare Oregon was founded by people who built property and knew housing. They saw the crisis forming before the headlines caught up, and they recognized that the answer was not waiting on new construction. It was already built, in the tens of thousands of spare bedrooms across Portland, sitting empty while people were being priced out of the communities they had called home for decades.
That insight became an organization, and the organization became a platform. When Silvernest, the venture-backed company that pioneered home sharing technology for older adults, made the decision to divest its platform, they offered HomeShare Oregon the opportunity to take it over. HomeShare Oregon accepted, placing proven, institutional-grade technology in mission-driven, nonprofit hands, where it belongs.
Today, HomeShare Oregon has built on that legacy. The platform that started in Portland's neighborhoods is now a national model: the infrastructure that every small town, faith community, and social organization reaches for when it wants to keep its people together, housed, and home.
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P.O. Box 18222
Portland, OR 97218
HomeShare Oregon is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
EIN: 86-3754694
Home sharing inquiries within Oregon, donations to HomeShare Oregon, and sponsorship of HomeShare Oregon or HomeShare Online.
Organizations interested in bringing HomeShare Online to their community contact HomeShare Online directly.
What Drives Us
HomeShare Oregon connects home providers who wish to stay in their homes with home seekers who need a safe, affordable place to call their own, empowering both through compatible home sharing matches that strengthen the financial, physical, and emotional security of everyone involved.
A world where home sharing is a first instinct, not a last resort. Where every community has the infrastructure to keep its people housed and connected, and where an empty bedroom is never wasted while someone who needs it goes without.
Home sharing becomes a social norm, so that when times get tight or life becomes harder to navigate alone, opening a home or stepping into one feels like the obvious choice. Before selling. Before relocating. Before isolation wins.
Research & Insights
We publish white papers when there is something worth your time: a frame, a piece of evidence, or an argument that helps states, cities, and partner organizations see home sharing as essential aging infrastructure.
White Paper · May 2026
The Missing Middle of Aging Infrastructure
A senior move usually arrives with a single name on it: a fall, a death, a tax bill. The truer story is the five to ten years before, when two or three forces were already compounding. This paper proposes a frame for the years that lie between full housing stability and the first formal step of the senior-services continuum, and argues that this is where home sharing belongs.
Get Involved
Whether you partner, give, sponsor, or share your home, there is a place for you in the work of keeping people home.
Your organization serves people navigating housing instability and the challenges of aging in place. Our platform serves them too. Partnership brings the nation's only nonprofit home sharing platform to the people who trust you most.
Explore PartnershipYour donation is philanthropic seed capital that channels the power of generosity into the financial and emotional security of people who want to stay in their homes and the communities they love.
Make a GiftEvery company serves people navigating the housing pressures of aging and displacement. Corporate sponsorship with HomeShare Oregon puts your brand beside the work that keeps people safe, stable, and home.
Become a SponsorSign up to share your home today. Find a compatible match through the nation's only nonprofit home sharing platform, built for safe, lasting arrangements that help you stay in the home you love.
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