HomeShare Oregon is on CNBC, Fox Business, and PBS this month. Three new blog posts, fresh impact numbers, and a thank you to everyone who answered our survey. | 
| | JUNE 2026 |
| | Home sharing is becoming core housing infrastructure, and state after state is starting to say so. Something has shifted. For years, home sharing was the quiet option, the one that worked but rarely got named. That is changing fast. Across the country, home sharing is being recognized for what it is: a critical piece of housing stability and affordability that works in any community, in any market, for people across the income spectrum. The appeal is broad by design. For a homeowner, sharing a spare room is a way to make staying in the home you love more sustainable, with the addition of income, companionship, or both, entirely on your own terms. For someone looking for a place to live, it is access to stable, affordable housing in a real neighborhood. One arrangement, two people better off, and not a dollar of new construction. That is why home sharing keeps showing up in serious conversations about affordability, and why it is moving from a local idea to recognized housing policy. | | | Home sharing is becoming state policy. 
Home sharing is no longer a local experiment. Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Maryland have each named home sharing in their state aging plans. Eleven states have now adopted a Multisector Plan for Aging, the document that decides which strategies a state will actually pursue, and 27 more are drafting one right now. Each of those plans is a chance to name home sharing as part of the housing toolkit or to pass it over for another four years. This is the window. State aging plans move on multi-year cycles. A strategy that is named this round shapes where housing departments, aging departments, and area agencies on aging point their attention. A strategy that is left out waits until the next cycle. | | | Oregon is deciding right now. Oregon is finalizing its 2026 to 2030 State Plan on Aging, and the current draft does not name home sharing. We think it should. Oregon is one of the few states with a home sharing program already operating at scale: 6,691 Oregonians enrolled since 2021, and 80 percent of matches still stably sharing a home at six months. Minnesota and Pennsylvania named home sharing in their plans without an operating program. Oregon has the program. The plan should name what the state already runs. HomeShare Oregon has submitted formal public comment asking the Office to recognize home sharing as a named strategy, and our board has written to Governor Kotek in support. The Office will weigh the public input over the coming weeks. We will keep you posted on what the final plan says. | | | Most Moves are not about medical care. 
When an older adult leaves the home they own, the reason is more often money or loneliness than a medical need. Those are exactly the two pressures home sharing relieves: a steady bit of income, and someone else in the house. It does not replace care when care is needed. It removes the reasons people leave a home they would rather keep. | | | A piece worth passing along. If this sounds like someone in your life, the simplest thing you can do is send it to them. 
| For the homeowner who has watched the costs of staying in the home they love climb, and would rather add help on their own terms than wait on a list or make a move they do not want to make. Home sharing is the option in between: it keeps the home, keeps the neighborhood, and adds income or company without giving anything up. Read the post → |
| | | Over 1 million Americans met home sharing this spring. The EmPOWERED Segment hosted by Meg Ryan introduced more than 1 million Americans to home sharing, featuring the Portland Home Sharing Pilot as a model other cities can study. It aired on CNBC, Fox Business, and public television. If you have not watched it yet, or if you know someone with a spare bedroom and a need they did not know how to name, it is worth six minutes. | Americans introduced to home sharing | CNBC, Fox Business, public TV | Portland, featured as a national model |
| | | | | Home sharing is having a national moment, and you are part of why. Thank you for following this work, for sharing it, and for being in it with us. Candice Smith
Executive Director, HomeShare Oregon | | in...@homeshareoregon.org HomeShare Oregon is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit · EIN: 86-3754964 You are receiving this email because you are a stakeholder or you signed up for this list. |
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