One of the downsides of the housing boom is that homes are becoming more and more expensive — and that is leaving people on low incomes or dependent on welfare.

Particularly hard hit by this are women who find themselves at retirement age with not enough money to buy a home, and facing a 10-year wait for public housing.

Susan Davies is the president of Sharing with Friends, an organisation that is proposing a creative solution to this problem.

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