How can young and older people share homes together? Wohnbuddy are successfully matching younger and older people to share a home together. here they share their journey and experiences.

1. Making affordable housing a reality
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3. Raising rents: All over Europe, housing has become all too expensive.
Elderly people fear lonliness & require support
Unused residential estates in Europe: AUT ½ Million; Germany 1,8
Million, Italy 2 Million, Spain 3,4 Million and GB about 700.000
Share of persons of 60 years or older in EU: 25% (2015) to 34% (2050).
32% of people with 65 years or older are living alone in the EU.
Problem
There is no easy way, to bring the young and the elderly together

4. Solution
Affordable
rent
As a seeker
Additional
income
As a host
Activities and
mutual support
A web-application which matches the young and the old via an algorithm …
without neglecting the personal contact.

5. Mission
WOHNBUDDY is a social enterprise that matches the elderly and retirement
homes via the wohnbuddy.com platform with suitable buddies for co-living.
These co-living buddies are mostly young people, who provide time for
common activities as well as everyday support for a low-cost room.

6. WOHNBUDDY at a glance
Based in Vienna, running third year,
social business
7 team members, 350 matches so far

7. One scheme - three different models
Private
Appartements
Retirement Homes &
twinning with Cities
New Building
Projects
We match the elderly with
suitable roommates.
Wir manage unused living space
and match retirement homes
with young people.
We run residential units (mini
student residence) in new
construction projects.

8. Our Offer
1.Algorithm: Matching of Hosts
and Seekers
2.Services: Legal framework,
personal support etc.
3.Consulting: Development of
concepts for new forms of living
4. Support: integral part of quality
assurance

9. Wohnbuddy was able to match 27-year-
old student Valentin with Miss Vondrak.
In this apartment all is about cooking :)
"It's a very enjoyable time I spend with
Ayman. We benefit from each other. I'm
always looking forward to the next
meeting."

10. "Why do I like living with young people?
This is simple to answer. If I'm alone in
the apartment all the time ... I'm not
feeling well! "(Peter)
“An intergenerational exchange is
important to me, you get to know new
and different perspectives. For me as a
young woman, everyday things get a
different meaning in old age.“

11. Co-living @ Retirement and nursing homes
• Empty double or single
residential units for students
• Currently about 50 students
in more than 11 retirement
and 1 nursing home
• Students bring in 5-7 hours
per week

12. Not able to
deliver in
due time
Not making
enough
money
More
seekers than
hosts
Organisational challenges we face

13. Digital solution for scaling-up
Manage hosts
and seekers
Coordination of meeting
between host and seeker
Storage
contracts
Payment via
platform
Make better
matching

14. A web application that brings young and old together ...
without losing the personal touch.
Digital Solution
A digital solution enables us to …
• be more efficient.
• provide our service to more people in more cities and
villages.
• make a better matching.

16. Services through a digital solution
• Pre-matching through an algorithm
• Coordination of meeting between host and seeker
• Payment through the plattform
• Document storage for contracts and further documents
A web application is a tool to manage our hosts and seekers and
facilitates our matching process.

17. Pre-matching through algorithm

18. Meeting between host and seeker

19. Supporters
Media
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Partners

20. lukas@wohnbuddy.com
0043 676 77 32 567
www.wohnbuddy.com
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