In January of 1981, the DuPage Senior Citizens Council and the Elmhurst Senior Citizens Commission co-sponsored a workshop to discuss affordable housing for seniors.  The workshop introduced these community members to the concept of shared group residences for seniors.  The Share-A-Home Association in Winter Park, Florida, also presented their program.  These commission members moved forward to incorporate Senior Home Sharing as a not-for-profit organization, and a charter Board of Directors was formed.  Two years later, Senior Home Sharing purchased the first shared home, a spacious, ranch in Lombard named Chase Place. Over the next  years, four more properties were acquired:  Van Buren Place in Elmhurst;  Willow Path in Lombard (a four-unit senior apartment building); Park Place in Downers Grove and Eagle Place in Naperville.  Homes were acquired with Community Development Block Grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to DuPage County and the City of Naperville.  Senior Home Sharing has served over 250 residents since we opened our first home in 1983.