Motivations for participation in nonprofit homeshare programs in the United States: a qualitative study with older home providers and home seekers.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Homesharing provides a strategy for addressing housing insecurity by pairing home providers, often older adults, with an extra room in their house with home seekers needing housing. Despite 5 decades of use, research on this intervention remains limited. This study aims to build on this sparse scholarship to provide insight into the motivations for participating as either home seekers or home providers.

Research design and methods

This community-engaged qualitative project includes data from 24 in-depth interviews and short demographic surveys with a diverse group of home providers (n = 13) and home seekers (n = 11) recruited from 2 nonprofit homesharing organizations. Interviews were recorded and professionally transcribed. The resear

SUBMITTER: Curry SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12863404 | biostudies-literature | 2026

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature