Homeshare is a program that matches older individuals who need assistance with younger people seeking affordable housing. It aims to address issues like loneliness, social care needs, and lack of affordable housing by having participants provide each other with 10 hours of support per week in exchange for reduced or free rent. A homeshare agency brokers matches between participants, assesses suitability, and monitors the arrangements. The program has helped address social issues while providing a sustainable housing model, though it faces challenges in gaining widespread adoption.

1. Homeshare
Deborah Fox
Policy and Development Officer, Shared
Lives Plus (Homeshare UK)
Alice Williams
Sector Development Officer, Shared Lives
Plus (Homeshare UK)

2. Key Issues:
An ageing population
Unaffordable Private
Rented Sector
Loneliness and
isolation across
generations
Few options
for low level
social care

4. Homeshare is a simple
concept that brings
together two unrelated
people for mutual benefit
and to share their lives

5. Key Characteristics of the Homeshare
model include:
A relationship brokered and
monitored by the Homeshare
Agency
Create a good match
All participants vetted and assessed
Provides 10hrs of practical support

6. Who uses Homeshare?

7. Who delivers Homeshare?

8. Sustainability!

9. Practice and Process

10. Outcomes and
Impact

11. Barriers and
Challenges

12. The Role Of Homeshare UK

13. Questions and
Discussion

14. Find out more at:
www.HomeshareUK.org
Contact us direct at:
alice@sharedlivesplus.org.uk
deborah@sharedlivesplus.org.uk