Resource Library

This document explores local government partnerships with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to help house and empower recently arrived newcomers and assist them in their adjustment to life in the US. The IRC then suggests how other resettlement agencies might form similar partnerships.

This document outlines successful strategies for community sponsors assisting with identifying and securing housing for newcomers.

This research project highlights the impact of the United States housing crisis when housing refugees in safe, affordable, and available housing. The need for affordable and available housing continues to grow, and RHS is responding.

This blogpost outlines a few of the most important facts about housing in the United States to communicate to newcomers before and during the housing search.

This blogpost highlights four stories of innovative refugee housing solutions.

This blogpost offers tools to help newcomers who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless find immediate shelter and stay safe.

The dynamics of the U.S. rental housing market have made identifying permanent housing options for newcomers difficult, resulting in longer stays in temporary housing. This resource outlines best practices for identifying, developing, and using temporary housing in resettlement.

In the face of the U.S. housing crisis, resettlement practitioners must embrace creative solutions to housing newcomers. One such solution involves partnering with institutions of higher education to meet newcomer temporary or long-term housing needs.