Photo: Siobhan Ennis
Intergenerational housing is becoming more common in the United States and Canada. As young people are priced out of the housing market and seniors want to age in place, this creates a state for wonderful friendships between young and old to occur. In Boston, Nadia Abdullah, 25, needed an apartment after graduation. Meanwhile, Judith Allonby, 64, was debating to move out of her two-story home. That's when Nesterly, an online home-sharing agency, brought them together. In Des Moines, Drake University music student Molly McDonough lives rent-free and gets performance practice at Wesley Acres, a senior living community, and Arlene DeVries, 81, once a voice major at Drake, was her biggest cheerleader at the National Association of Teachers of Singing competition. In Canada, Simon Fraser University's intergenerational housing program brought together retired physics professor Michael Wortis, 85, and health sciences graduate student Siobhan Ennis, 27. In exchange for $400 a month rent for the ground floor, Ennis mows the lawn and helps clean up around the house.
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