News And Events

This ABC News segment looks at the people who use Homeshare and their reasons to do so.

Increasing numbers of older people are living alone, at the same time soaring rents make it challenging to find somewhere affordable to live for many students, low paid workers and retirees. Compass follows people taking first steps as they are matched, meet and hopefully hit it off.

Our friends at the Hawkes Bay branch of New Zealand’s Age Concern agency, which operates a successful Homeshare Program, sent us this lovely story in September 2020. It’s a first-hand account of a new match between householder Frankie and homesharer Ian, which started just before the country’s COVID-19 lockdown was imposed....