HOMESHARING PROGRAM DIRECTORY

This Program Directory lists independent Home Sharing Programs around the Country to help consumers who want to Home Share. NSHRC is not a housing provider. The Directory is made available to help you find a program that exists in your area. NSHRC does not have legal authority over programs listed in the Directory.

If you are currently operating a non-profit Home Sharing Program and would like to be listed on the NSHRC Program Directory, please view the criteria to list your Home Sharing Program. If your program meets the criteria, you will have the opportunity to complete an application to be listed on this website.

View the criteria to list your Home Sharing Program

California

Human Investment Project, Inc. (HIP Housing)

Senior Network Services - Shared Housing Program

Ventura County Area Agency on Aging

  • Match-up Program
  • Address: Ventura, CA
  • Phone: 805-477-7300 Option 3
  • Contact: Sonia Vaughn
  • Email:  Home.Share@ventura.org
  • Notes: Sponsored by Housing Authority of Ventura for residents of City of Ventura.

Elder Help of San Diego - Homeshare Program

Affordable Living for the Aging

Share Sonoma County

NVCH Home Sharing Program

Home Match Alameda County

Home Match Contra-Costa County

  • Program: Home Match Contra Costa County
  • Address: 2185 North California Blvd, Suite 215, Walnut Creek 94596 – By Appointment Only
  • Contact: Logan Robertson, Program Manager
  • Phone: 925-956-7385
  • Email: lrobertson@frontporch.net  
  • Website: https://covia.org/programs/home-match/
  • Notes: Seekers must live, work, or study in Contra Costa County. Providers must live in Contra Costa County.

Home Match Marin County

Home Match San Francisco County

Smart Share Housing Solutions

Home & Heart

Home Share OC

HomeShare American River

  • Organization Name: Placer People of Faith Together
  • Program Start Date: 2021
  • Program Name: HomeShare American River
  • Street Address: 4305 Roosevelt Ave., Sacramento, CA 95820
  • Contact: Justin Ellerby
  • Phone: (530) 746-8681
  • Email: justin@homeshareamericanriver.org
  • Website:  https://homeshareamericanriver.org/
  • Target Populations Served: Unrestricted, but prioritizing matches including a person 60+ years of age.
  • Geographic Service Area: Within 40 minutes’ drive of western Placer County (e.g; Roseville, Auburn).
  • Participant Eligibility Restrictions: None!
  • Fees Charged To Participants: Sliding scale suggested donation of $15 – 50.

HomeShare - Senior Advocacy Network

  • Organization Name: Senior Advocacy Network
  • Program Start Date: 2021
  • Program Name: HomeShare
  • Street Address: 821 13th St Suite F, Modesto, CA 95354
  • Phone: 209-577-3814
  • Contact: Hannah Brady
  • Email: sanhousingprogram@gmail.com
  • Website: http://senioradvocacynetwork.org/
  • Target Populations Served: Seniors, Low-income
  • Geographic Service Area: Stanislaus County
  • Participant Eligibility Restrictions: Residents of Stanislaus County, Priority given to Seniors
  • Fees Charged To Participants: None

Northcoast Homeshare

  • Organization Name: Area 1 Agency on Aging
  • Program Name: Northcoast Homeshare
  • Street Address: 333 J St., Eureka, CA 95501
  • Phone: 707.442.3763 x213 (voicemail checked daily)
  • Mobile: 707.273.1113 (text ok)
  • Fax: 707.442.3714
  • Contact: Julie André – Northcoast Homeshare Program Coordinator
  • Email: homeshare@a1aa.org
  • Website: http://www.a1aa.org/homesharing
  • Target Populations Served: Unrestricted, but ideally matches will include at least one person 60 years old and over.
  • Geographic Service Area: Humboldt County, Del Norte County
  • Participant Eligibility Restrictions: No documented record of elder abuse.
  • Fees Charged To Participants: None. Donations always welcome.

Colorado

Sunshine Home Share Colorado

Neighbor 2 Neighbor

Delaware

Delaware Foundation for Senior Citizen Home Shares

  • Organization Name: The Delaware Foundation for Senior Citizen Home Shares
  • Program Start Date: August 2024
  • Program Name: The Delaware Foundation for Senior Citizen Home Shares
  • Street Address: 4809 Plum Run Court Wilmington, DE 19808
  • Contact: Lora Bates
  • Phone: 302-669-1658
  • Email: lora.bates@delawarefoundationforseniorcitizenhomeshares.com
  • Website:  thedelawarefoundationforseniorcitizenhomeshares.com
  • Target Populations Served: 55+, with one participant in each match being a senior citizen
  • Geographic Service Area: All of Delaware
  • Participant Eligibility Restrictions: None!
  • Fees Charged To Participants: None!

Florida

Hearts and Homesharing

Organization Name: Osceola Council on Aging
Program Start Date: 2018
Program Name: Hearts and Homesharing
Street Address: 700 Generation Point
City: Kissimmee
State: FL
Zip Code: 34744
Phone: 407-891-1467
Email: housing@osceola-coa.com
Website: osceolagenerations.org

Target Populations Served: The target population served are seniors, people with disabilities, working profesionals, students, individuals who can’t find affordable housing, single parents, emancipated youths, anyone unable to afford homeownership, or those who have reduced income.

Geographic Service Area: Home provider must have a home within Osceola County.

Participant Eligibility Restrictions: Home provider must have home within Osceola County and must provide a private bedroom (preferably with private bath). Home must meet and pass intial and annual housing inspection, must demonstrate proof of ownership or authorization to sublet and must pass national criminal background screening.

Home seeker must pass national criminal background screening, must be able to demonstrate sufficient income to sustain monthly rent, and must agree to the Home Provider’s home rules.

Both the home provider and home seeker must provide copy of their driver’s license or state ID’s for all adults in the household, copy of social security cards for all members of the household, and proof og current income.

Fees Charged To Participants: A money order for $10.00 as a processing fee must be submitted at the time the application is submitted.

Home Share Pinellas

God's Precious Gifts, Inc

  • Match-up Homesharing Program
  • Address: Punta Gorda, FL
  • Phone: 941.258.5255
  • Contact: Anna Callwood
  • Email: iamgpgi@live.com

Hawaii

Hawaii Intergenerational Network

Organization Name: Hawaii Intergenerational Network
Program Start Date: 2019
Program Name: Homesharing Hawaii
Street Address: PO Box 279
City: Waimanalo
State: HI
Zip Code: 96795
Phone: 808.308.5291
Email: homesharinghawaii@gmail.com
Website: homesharinghawaii.org

Target Populations Served: Home Owners who are adults with a room in a home or apartment (with permission from landlord) to share, on the island of Oahu in the state of Hawaii, and Home Seekers, who are adults seeking an affordable place to live.  This is home sharing in exchange for affordable rent or chores or some combination is for six months or more.  It is not vacation rentals.

Geographic Service Area: The homes are located on the island of Oahu in the state of Hawaii.  Home seekers are primarily from Oahu, but throughout the state and continental U.S.

Participant Eligibility Restrictions: Adults 18 and older.

Fees Charged To Participants: None at this time.

Idaho

HomeShare Kootenai County

Illinois

Resources for Community Living

The Center of Concern

  • Match-up Homesharing Program
  • http://www.centerofconcern.org
  • Address: Des Plaines, IL
  • Phone: 847.823.0453
  • Contact: Director of Programs
  • Email: concern@centerofconcern.org
  • Notes: Serving suburban Cook County since 1978 and assists adults of all ages. Also offers emergency transitional housing and rapid rehousing services. Full list of programs and services is available on agency website.

Center on Halsted

Louisiana

Shared Housing of New Orleans

Maryland

St. Ambrose Homesharing

Housing Initiative Partnership

  • Organization Name: Housing Initiative Partnership
  • Program Name: Montgomery County Home Sharing Program
  • Program Start Date: 2020
  • Address: 12900 Middlebrook Road, Suite 500, Germantown, MD 20874
  • Phone: 301-85-SHARE (301-857-4273)
  • Contact: Michele Higgs, Community Outreach Coordinator
  • Email:  HomeShare@hiphomes.org
  • Website: www.HIPhomes.org/home-sharing
  • Target Populations Served: Senior homeowners with a safe and attractive spare bedroom or ADU for long-term rental, renters of all ages seeking affordable housing options. Homeowner must live in the home full time to participate. In some cases, light housekeeping (e.g.; raking leaves clearing snow, errands, shared transportation) can be bartered for a reduction in rent.
  • Geographic Service Area: Montgomery County, MD

Michigan

Housing Bureau for Seniors

New Jersey

Women's Rights Information Center - Shared Housing

  • Match-up Homesharing Program
  • http://www.womensrights.org
  • Address: Englewood, NJ
  • Phone: 201.568.1166
  • Contact: Susan Bendes
  • Email: sbendes@womensrights.org
  • Notes: Housemates must be able to share financial obligations and to meet their own basic needs. In some cases, services such as childcare, senior care, or housekeeping are bartered for a reduced financial share.

Homesharing, Inc.

Senior Citizens United Community Services, Inc.

  • Organization Name: Senior Citizens United Community Services, Inc.
  • Program Start Date: 1982
  • Program Name: SCUCS Shared Housing Program
  • Street Address: 537 Nicholson Road, Audubon, NJ, 08106
  • Phone: 856-456-1121
  • Email: jwait@scucs.org (Jennifer Wait)
  • Website: www.scucs.org

New York

New York Foundation for Senior Citizens, Inc.

  • Match-up Homesharing Program
  • http://www.nyfsc.org
  • Address: New York, NY
  • Phone: 212.962.7559
  • Contact: Elizabeth Sofield
  • Email: esofield@nyfscltcop.org
  • Notes: Match must include person 60 or over. Also serves persons living with a developmental disability.

FAMILY of Woodstock / HomeShare Woodstock

North Carolina

HomeShare Durham - Durham Congregations in Action

Oregon

Home Share Oregon

  • Organization Name: Home Share Oregon
  • Program Start Date: 2021
  • Address: PO. Box 18222, Portland, OR 97218
  • Phone: 503-515-2397
  • Email: info@homeshareoregon.org
  • Website: homeshareoregon.org
  • Target Populations Served: Our goal is to expand access to affordable housing by making home sharing a cultural norm. We encourage everyone to consider home sharing and then we provide additional support services to assist vulnerable populations through the process.
  • Geographic Service Area: State of Oregon with a focus on Lane, Jackson, Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas, and Deschutes counties.
  • Participant Eligibility Restrictions: We do not restrict anyone who would like to engage in home sharing.
  • Fees Charged To Participants: None

Pennsylvania

Home of the Sparrow

SHARE Shared Housing & Resource Exchange - Pike and Wayne County

  • Match-up Homesharing Program
  • Address: 150 Pike County Blvd., Hawley, PA 18428
  • Phone: 570-832-5133
  • Contact: Larisa Yusko – SHARE Housing Counselor – Monroe, Pike, Wayne Counties
  • Email: lyusko@pikepa.org
  • Web: More Info

SHARE Shared Housing & Resource Exchange - Monroe County

  • Match-up Homesharing Program
    Shared Housing and Resource Exchange
  • SHARE Housing Counselor – Monroe, Pike & Wayne Counties
  • Address: 150 Pike County Blvd., Hawley, PA 18428
  • Phone: 570-832-0538
  • Web: More Info

SHARE Shared Housing & Resource Exchange - Union-Snyder AAA

  • Match-up Homesharing Program
    Union/Synder Agency on Aging, Inc.
  • Address: 116 N. 2nd Street, Lewisburg, PA 17837
  • Phone: 570-524-2100  ext. 1013
  • Phone: 570-374-5558
  • Contact: Dea Schader – SHARE Housing Counselor
  • Email: dschader@usaaa17.org
  • Web: More Info

SHARE Shared Housing & Resource Exchange - Carbon County

  • Match-up Homesharing Program
    Carbon County Area Agency on Aging
  • Address: 401 Delaware Avenue 3rd Floor, Palmerton, PA 18071
  • Phone: 570-249-1159
  • Contact: Kellie Cummings – SHARE Housing Counselor/Coordinator
  • Email: kcummingssharecoordinator@ptd.net
  • Web: More Info

SHARE Shared Housing & Resource Exchange - Crawford County AAA

  • Match-up Homesharing Program
    Active Aging, Inc.
  • Address: 1034 Park Ave., Meadville, PA 16335
  • Phone: 814-336-1792  ext. 165
  • Contact: Gwen Smith – SHARE Housing Counselor
  • Email: gsmith@activeaging.org
  • Web: More Info

SHARE Shared Housing & Resource Exchange - Adams County

  • Match-up Homesharing Program
    Adams County Office of Aging
  • Address: 318 West Middle Street, Gettysburg, PA 17325
  • Phone: 717-778-1293
  • Web: More Info

SHARE Shared Housing & Resource Exchange - Bucks County

  • Match-up Homesharing Program
    Bucks County Office of Aging
  • Address: 55 E. Court Street, 3rd Floor, Doylestown, PA 18901
  • Phone: 215-303-2102
  • Contact: Shannon Walsh
  • Email: c-swalsh@buckscounty.org
  • Web: More Info

Texas

Shared Housing Center

  • Match-up Homesharing Program
  • http://www.sharedhousing.org
  • Address: Dallas, TX
  • Phone: 214.821.8510
  • Contact: Maria Machado
  • Email: mmachado@sharedhousing.org
  • Notes: Services for aged 21 and over. Shared Living Residence: 12-month service for homeless single-parent families and older adults. Match-up considered a transitional and permanent housing solution.

Vermont

HomeShare Vermont

  • Match-up Homesharing Program
  • http://www.homesharevermont.org
  • Address: Burlington, VT
  • Phone: 802-863-5625
  • Contact: Connor Timmons, Executive Director
  • Notes: Matches elderly & disabled homeowners with persons seeking a home sharing arrangement.

Washington

Housing Resources Bainbridge

Senior Services for South Sound Home Share Program

HomeShare - North Kitsap Fishline

Kitsap Homes of Compassion

International

Homeshare International