MIAMI: Following the death of her husband, Freda Schaeffer found her Brooklyn home feeling empty.
“I wanted someone to live with me, to share the house,” Schaeffer, 85, said of her Midwood property. “Since he died, I don’t like to be alone at night, or all the time.”
A friend recommended a home-sharing program through the New York Foundation for Senior Citizens, which connects older people in need of housing with a host, or those with a spare room with a tenant…..