Article: Chester County, Pa., Home-Sharing Effort Keys into New Need.

By Lini S. Kadaba, The Philadelphia In...uirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 17--When her marriage broke up a couple of years ago, Olga Dedkova found herself in a bind.

Dedkova, 40, needing to move out of her house, couldn't find a place for her and her young daughter to stay -- at least not one that she could afford on the $1,000-a-month she earns as a waitress in West Chester.

"It would be a very bad neighborhood," she said of her options in the area, where the median rent in Chester County, including utilities, is $754 a month.

Dedkova, who shares custody of daughter Alice Tamayev, 6, taking her on weekends, ...

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