The Shared Housing Program is a professionally guided approach that brings homeowners together with home seekers in exchange for a mutually agreed-upon monthly fee. The benefits of Shared Housing include security, companionship, and shared housing costs. We offer a careful screening process through extensive interviews. Background checks and personal references are available.
Our home-matching service is free for anyone in Bergen County who is searching for a home or wishing to offer a space in their own home. We are passionate about finding the right match for you.
What is the Shared Housing Program?
Shared Housing is a simple idea: a homeowner offers accommodation in their home or apartment to an individual looking for housing in exchange for an agreed upon monthly fee. Shared Housing benefits include reduced financial burden (and therefore an opportunity to increase savings as well as keep one’s home), sharing of household tasks, companionship possibilities, and more.
The community also benefits from Shared Housing. Shared living makes efficient use of existing housing stock, helps preserve the fabric of the neighborhood and, in certain cases, helps to lessen the need for costly chore/care services and long term institutional care.
A home sharer might be a senior citizen, a person with disabilities, a working professional, someone at-risk of homelessness, a single parent (provider), or simply a person wishing to share his or her life and home with others. For these people, Shared Housing offers companionship, affordable housing, security, mutual support and much more.
Our no-fee Shared Housing program can offer a more secure alternative to other roommate options. Our staff's formal process carefully screens each program applicant. Background checks and personal references are also available.
Homelessness prevention referrals and housing counseling services are available by appointment.
Looking to learn more about the Shared Housing Program?
For more information, call Shared Housing at (201)-568-1166 or email Sbendes@womensrights.org
Women’s Rights Information Center is a member of the National Shared Housing Resource Center.
Generously funded by the Bergen County Division of Senior Services, Greater Bergen Realtors Care Foundation, and Blue Foundry