In exchange for small, rent-free apartments, the Humanitas retirement home in Deventer, Netherlands, requires students to spend at least 30 hours per month acting as “good neighbors". Students struggle to find housing in the Netherlands, especially in big cities. Amsterdam was short of 9,000 student rooms in 2014 alone, while two years earlier, the Dutch government cut care funding for people over 80. Those two shortages prompted Humanitas to come up with this cheap way of providing better care, and company, for their residents. Officials at the nursing home say students do a variety of activities with the older residents: watching sports, celebrating birthdays and, perhaps most importantly, offering company when seniors fall ill. Six students from area universities Saxion and Windesheim share the building with approximately 160 seniors. They are allowed to come and go as they please, as long as they follow one rule: Do not be a nuisance to the elderly.