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transition. The convergence of high housing costs and in aging U.S. population is

resulting in some creative potential solutions. One is having older and

younger adults share housing not just to reduce costs but to help

with some social issues such as loneliness and expensive child care. One example

is 75-year-old Deborah Anderson, who's lived in her three bedroom house in

Minneapolis since 1989.

So I guess when my kids left, I've been single for many for many many years I get divorced many years ago

traveling is a big part of my life you know I just thought well I would like to you know I

could have somebody live here while I'm gone and

while I'm here both. So Deborah decided to get a roommate and she's had several

since. For the past four and a half years or so, she shared her house with a 63 year old woman named

Evita.

We have dinner together, you know, maybe a couple nights a week.

It depends on the week and what we each have going on.

And we each buy our own food and have sort of our parts of the refrigerator, but if she's

short an egg or I'm short, you know, something, I mean we aren't real strict on that it's we need

some cheese for a sandwich or something you know. Deborah and Avita each have

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