Evaluation of the Homeshare pilots

This evaluation report comes after research published in May 2018 by Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales and the Big Lottery Fund, concluded that intergenerational homesharing can help reduce loneliness and isolation, improve wellbeing and address the lack of affordable housing options.

Commissioned by SCIE and conducted by Traverse, it looked at what works to develop a sustainable Homeshare scheme, through:

• Identifying which approaches and activities work best as well as barriers;
• Assessing the cost and benefits of the schemes; and
• Identifying what would encourage a wider take up of Homeshare, through the development of a framework of factors to be used by commissioners to assess bids for Homeshare schemes.