Why home share in central Vermont?
- Meet people and make friends
- Discover new ways to relate to friends, relatives, coworkers, and neighbors
- Lighten the load of responsibilities
- Stay safe AND independent in your own home
- Create more free time
- Meet the needs of seniors and people with disabilities
- Increase resources and opportunities for low-income households
Why the need for a home sharing movement?
In the nine years since Home Share Now opened its doors, the world has shifted dramatically.
- The first Baby Boomers qualified for Social Security, an undeniable harbinger of a rapidly aging population.
- Affordable housing, already scarce in central Vermont, blossomed into a crisis with the national economic meltdown in late 2008.
- The economic reality is inspiring many folks to reevaluate their lifestyles.
- Environmental concerns — including increased awareness of the scarcity of “easy” oil and evidence of climate change — have highlighted the need to explore more sustainable choices.
Home sharing provides an answer to these challenges. Home share matches are different from traditional landlord/tenant situations, because each match is a personalized blend of trading some services and/or money in the context of building a new relationship between two or more people.
Why not home share?
Build something beautiful.
Home Share Now does not provide emergency housing or care giving.
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