Frequently asked questions

Shared living allows residents to have their own space while sharing a home environment with others. The kitchen, living room and other common areas belong to the household, and rooms are either private or shared depending on the home. Successful shared living depends on respect, communication, and clear expectations.

Kindred plans to offer both private and shared bedrooms. Which room types an active opportunity includes will depend on the home, so we go through it with you early rather than leaving it to move-in day. A shared bedroom means two residents to a room, each with their own bed and their own storage.

Kindred plans to furnish and prepare each home before residents arrive. Details will vary by home, but residents can expect furnished spaces — a room of their own, private or shared — and shared areas designed for comfortable living.

Shared homes work best when everyone understands and respects the expectations of living with others. Detailed expectations are reviewed during the application process.

No. Kindred Living Group runs shared homes and manages the property. We do not deliver medical care, administer medication, provide therapy or counselling, or supervise a treatment plan, and we are not a substitute for any of those. Residents keep their own providers, and their care stays between them and the people delivering it.

Keeping a home is more than having a room in it, so helping residents hold onto their housing is part of the program: working out who to call, getting to the right resource, the paperwork side of staying housed. It is general, practical help with living somewhere, offered by the people running the house. It is not care, nobody is assessed for it, and Kindred does not speak or act on a resident’s behalf with anyone else.

Broome County, New York. Each community is designed around shared values, clear expectations, and a welcoming home environment.

A Veterans Community is planned. Kindred is preparing a shared living model designed with veterans in mind; no public home is open yet.

Applications open only when Kindred has an active housing opportunity. For now, send an inquiry to ask questions, register interest or discuss future availability. When an opportunity opens, the application is a separate recorded step.

No. Sending it creates no application and no resident record — it starts a conversation and nothing more. You can stop there with nothing kept beyond your message.

If Kindred may be a good fit, we will discuss the home, what to expect, and the next steps. When the right opportunity is available, we work through the final details together, and the details of a home are agreed in writing before anything is settled.

That is how we work at it: we come back to you either way, and a no is still an answer. You should not have to chase us to find out where you stand.

Use the form on our referral partners page, or write to us at the partner address listed there. Please have the person’s agreement to contact us on their behalf first.

Send who you are, roughly when housing is needed and for how long, and which community you think fits. Please do not send assessments, care plans, case notes, diagnoses or medication histories — we are not a clinical provider and have nowhere appropriate to hold them.

We come back to you either way, including when the answer is no, and you deal with one named person on our side rather than a general inbox.