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.
Interactive Research · July 2026
The Economics of Home Sharing, State by State
The rooms exist and the need exists. This piece answers the next question: what is connecting them worth? Four national figures size the opportunity, then two calculators put it in your own terms. The State Math prices what the older-adult housing shortfall costs a state and what home sharing keeps from being spent. Your Household Math shows what a match is worth inside one household's budget.
Interactive Research · July 2026
America's Older-Adult Housing Gap, State by State
Every state in America has more spare bedrooms in homes owned by older adults than older renters who spend more for rent than is recommended. This interactive map puts a number on that gap for all 50 states and DC: the housing math, the cost burden on older renters and homeowners alike, and each state's aging-policy status. Hover over any state for a quick read, or click for the full picture.
White Paper · June 2026
Between Aging and Housing Policy
Older adults are the fastest-growing population experiencing homelessness, and the forces pushing them out of stable housing stack faster than the aging system or the housing system can answer alone. This systems brief shows where home sharing fits as preventive infrastructure, how it advances USAging's Doors to Housing priorities, and how shared infrastructure finally makes it practical to implement.
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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