Oregon's housing crisis has become a humanitarian crisis.

In the last decade, Oregon has experienced a steady increase in homelessness. State, county, and local municipalities have directed billions in resources to solve the problem, but data shows that current solutions are not sufficient.

15k

HOMELESS PEOPLE
live in Oregon

14

RENTERS
compete for each available housing unit

$40k

SOCIETAL COST
of one person falling into homelessness

HomeShare Oregon launched as an innovative response to the affordable housing crisis.

Oregon home providers are in crisis

1 in 3

home providers in Oregon are housing cost-burdened.

1 in 3 homeowners in Oregon are housing cost-burdened.

557,000 home providers are cost-burdened
(spending >30% of income on housing)

246,000 home providers are severely cost-burdened
(spending >50% of income on housing)

The need among Oregon’s growing population of older adults is especially acute.

Many have little or no retirement savings; in fact, senior women are the fastest growing population of the unhoused. And rural areas will be particularly challenged to meet these emerging needs.

Nearly 40% of Oregonians over 65 say they are at risk of losing their home.

Graphic depicting 40% of houses.

172,000 home providers over 65
are cost-burdened
(spending >30% of income on housing)

77,000 home providers over 65
are severely cost-burdened
(spending >50% of income on housing)

Homesharing is part of the solution

Homesharing is a direct, actionable response to housing instability, foreclosure, and homelessness.

There are 1.5 million homes with spare rooms in Oregon.

At HomeShare Oregon, we understand that if we can match housemates with just 2% of the home providers that have spare bedrooms, 30,000 people could be housed affordably and 30,000 more (specifically, home providers at risk of foreclosure) could stay in their homes—all with no new infrastructure development.

It costs approximately $350,000 to build one new affordable housing unit. By incentivising homesharing, we are lessening the need for construction of new housing and providing immediate, needed inventory. 

Homesharing opens up the pipeline as a low-cost way to expand our state’s capacity to address the housing crisis. By leveraging technology, public education, community outreach and direct case management, HomeShare Oregon is being recognized as a common sense solution.

Graph showing comparative cost of homesharing.

“There is one creative approach that can produce additional housing [...] without having to build anything at all: homesharing, in which existing home providers rent out their unused rooms to tenants in search of affordable housing.”

—KGW News

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