I became a single mom and needed to rent a house in one of the most expensive zip codes in the US. My parents moved in to help.

Vanessa Gordon lives under one roof with her multigenerational family in East Hampton, an expensive neighborhood in New York. Jeremy Garretson for BI This essay is part of The New American Home, a series that examines multigenerational houses. After 13 years of marriage, I became a single mom of my two young kids. I knew my life was about to change after my divorce in 2024, but I didn't fully grasp how quickly and dramatically it would shift. Our family home was in East Hampton, New York, bu...