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As demand for home share program grows, more strangers move in together - VTDigger

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A nonprofit that pairs Vermonters who have stable housing with those in search of affordable rent has up to four times as many “guests” as “hosts.”

Carol Blakely, left, hosts Katie Bailey, a UVM lecturer, at Blakey’s home in St. George, seen here Oct. 25, 2022. Photo by Riley Robinson/VTDigger Hidden among the trees of Forest Road in St. George, two strangers, 40 years apart in age, began sharing a home. Carol Blakely, a retired teacher in her 70s and mother of four, once had a house full of people. But her children grew up and moved out, and her husband died, leaving only her 11-year-old French-Canadian cat named Poppy. That was until last August, when Katie Bailey, 32, moved in. Support Vermont's nonprofit newsroom Join our July M

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