PORT ANGELES — Dr. Nancy Stephanz is looking for people who want to share their homes.

“What I’m looking for are people looking for companionship rather than people looking to make a lot of money,” she said.

Stephanz, a retired physician, spoke to the Port Angeles Chamber of Commerce about home sharing during the monthly luncheon meeting Wednesday at the Red Lion Hotel.

Home sharing is when a homeowner rents an empty bedroom to someone they are not related to, she said.

“Homes and rents are unaffordable,” Stephanz said during her presentation, which cited vox.com as saying there are 44 million empty bedrooms in the U.S.

“The fastest-growing group of homeless people in the U.S. is women over 60,” she said. “Social Security checks are too small. Caregivers or homemakers never had much p

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