Abstract
This study surveyed a random sample of 144 house shares of one of the country's oldest matching programs to investigate which types of persons house share, reasons that people choose house sharing, the types of assistance house sharers need and provide for each other and the types of housing sharing relationships that exist. It found that primary reasons for sharing were financial (44%), companionship (21%), and help in home and health care (19%). Almost one-third of housesharers were frail and while they received a significant amount of housesharers were frail and while they received a singificant amount of assistance from their partners in household tasks, not all of them were in matches in which services provided or exchanged. And, contrary to other research that suggests matches are not conducive to intimacy, almost half the sample indicated moderate to strong levels of friendship as well as willingness to confide intheir partners on personal matters.
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