HomeShare for Her: Facilitating relationships for successful home sharing

In our latest Homefullness episode, I interview Chloe Howorth on the HomeShare for Her program located in the Nelson-Tasman region of Aotearoa NZ. The program addresses the lack of affordable housing and the lack of available housing for single women. Because in our region, according to a Stuff article in April 2023, it says “low wages and expensive housing make the Nelson Tasman area unaffordable” with our housing being the third worst in the country, with some people spending over 50% of their income on housing. But the other thing that the programme does is it mitigates the problems that can come up when people share a living space together. You might've seen the program on Netflix called the Worst Roommate Ever. That's enough to make you to never want to have a roommate, pretty gruesome stories. So, HomeShare for Her hopes to mitigate those kinds of very traumatic experiences, as well as help women have the best possible shared living situation, sharing the home in a way that's equal, where everyone living there feels like the house really is their home. This a programme that could be replicated in other regions so listen in to learn about how it's done. That's what we're going to talk about today in our story about HomeShare for Her. Links mentioned in the show: https://homeshareforher.nz/ https://www.williamsamuels.co.nz/ https://www.commonground.net.nz/