News & Updates

A local resettlement agency in New York recently purchased a 7,000-square-foot house near its office to be refurbished and transformed into transitional housing for newly arriving refugees. The agency has been working towards its own housing for eight years as housing shortages have added extra challenges to resettlement in the area.

On November 13, 2024 at 1pm ET, Support Higher Education in Refugee Resettlement (SHERR) will host a one-hour long virtual event in partnership with RHS. This session will cover how colleges and universities can identify and use on and off campus spaces as temporary shelter or short-term housing for refugees.

Join the National Low Income Housing Coalition in Washington D.C. from March 24-27, 2025 for the Housing Policy Forum, which will convene affordable housing experts and practitioners to discuss the state of housing in America and explore solutions to problems.

Research from Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies examines the role of the recent immigration surge in U.S. housing costs.

This piece provides a comprehensive overview of the housing policy proposals of both the Harris-Walz and Trump-Vance presidential campaigns.

Refugee Housing Solutions continues to celebrate the work that the Sisters of Saint Joseph do in Philadelphia through their Newcomer Housing Alliance. In particular, we note the Alliance receiving the University of Notre Dame’s “To the Heights” award, which is given annually at the University’s Church Property Initiative Conference (see page 2 of the September Newsletter).

Lancaster, PA has a long history of welcoming newcomers and has even been labeled America’s “Refugee Capital.” Recently, a public university in Lancaster—Millersville University—signed an agreement with Every Campus a Refuge (ECAR) to host refugees on campus grounds and support their integration into the local community.

A Boston congregation relocated two large Afghan families who had been living in their church basement for two years. The families left Afghanistan as soon as they could after the Taliban took control of the county and, thanks to the pastor and congregation a church in Newburyport, Massachusetts, they found a home at the St. Paul's Episcopal Church. While that situation was not ideal, to say the least, the families’ and congregation’s persistence in looking for a better option led to an amazing outcome.