Caregiver housing — a room you can afford, near your clients

Why this exists

Care work pays a median of about $17 an hour. In the neighborhoods where care is needed most, that doesn't cover the rent — so caregivers commute an hour each way, or leave the field entirely.

A third to two-thirds of care workers leave every year. Most of the time it isn't the heart of the work that drives them out — it's the cost of living near it. Cut the housing cost, and the math changes overnight.

careho.me was built to close that gap: a real home you can afford, within reach of the people you look after.

What you get

A home you can afford

A private room in an older neighbor's house — at a fraction of market rent — in exchange for a few hours a week of the company and light help you already know how to give.

Paid work, right on the block

Your room is home base. Through co-op.care — the worker-owned cooperative — you can take paid shifts with other neighbors nearby: a ride, a check-in, a few hours with someone who lives alone two doors down. A real wage, a share of what you build, a whole community within walking distance.

Cheaper housing puts more in your pocket than a raise would — and you walk to work instead of commuting to it. A real home, and neighbors who know your name.

You set the balance

There's no fixed rate. You and your host agree where the line sits — more hours for a free room, fewer hours for a little rent, or anywhere in between.

More hours · a free room Fewer hours · a little rent

A neighbor who mostly wants company might offer the room free for a few evenings a week. Someone who needs less might take a modest rent for the odd hand. You decide together, in writing, before anyone moves in — and you can revisit it as life changes.

One room. A whole community.

Here's the part that matters most. Your room isn't just a place to sleep — it's what lets you exist in a neighborhood that otherwise couldn't afford you.

And once you're here, you're not only helping the person whose home it is. A single spare room, offered to one caregiver, can become the thing that keeps an entire block cared for — the rides, the check-ins, the someone-who-notices. House one caregiver, and you don't help one person. You seed care for a whole community.

How it works

Tell us about you — where you'd like to be, the hours that work, what you're good at.
We find a home that fits — a vetted older neighbor with a spare room, matched to you both ways.
You meet, and agree the terms — the room, the hours, the boundaries. Nothing is decided until you both say yes.
You move in — an affordable home near your work. And when you want paid caregiving shifts, co-op.care is there.

Every match is checked both ways — ID, background, references — and a care companion sits in on the first meeting.

Find your room

Leave your details and we'll match you with a home. It's free.

Thank you — we'll be in touch with homes that fit.

Know another caregiver who's stretched thin on rent? Send them this page. The more of us here, the more homes open up — and the more of the neighborhood gets looked after.

Prefer to look first? Browse rooms → · Want paid shifts? See co-op.care →

A room you can afford — near the people you care for.