Insights That Move Home Sharing Forward

A new affordable apartment takes two or more years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to create. In four months, HomeShare's platform added 52 rooms of housing, listed and ready, at a cost of about $2,269 each. Keep building. And fund the rooms that are already standing.

Home sharing programs hear from far more home seekers than home providers. Here is why, and what can help older homeowners make an informed decision.

Some spare rooms sit far from jobs and transit. Here is an honest look at how home sharing can work, and where it may not, in suburbs, small towns, and rural communities.

Longevity investments assume housing stability. The housing system does not reliably reach the people those investments are for. There is enormous existing housing capacity sitting entirely outside the funding system, and it can be activated now.

A home provider, a state agency, and a foundation program officer are asking the same underlying question this month: what would this actually cost, and what would we get back? Value of a Match is our answer.

For foundations funding older-adult services, intergenerational connection, economic stability, or homelessness prevention: here's how one multi-year grant can seed self-sustaining home sharing across an entire region.

About 11 million later-life housing transitions are driven by affordability or isolation, not medical need. These are moves that didn't have to happen. Home sharing is the upstream intervention that prevents them before they start.

Three things have to exist together for home sharing to be a serious civic intervention. Most states have one of them. A few have two. Oregon has all three.

Two of the most expensive, most stubborn problems in American aging are housing affordability and social isolation. One intervention solves for both, at a fraction of the cost of building new.

Housing instability and social isolation are the twin emergencies shaping aging-focused philanthropy today. Home sharing solves both at once.

Building systems that multiply impact is how strategic philanthropists create lasting change across housing and aging.