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The Housing Guarantee Fund: A Year in Review

Source: HIAS

This report recaps the first year of HIAS' acclaimed Housing Guarantee Fund program, its impacts, and lessons learned.

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Learn more about legal requirements and find answers to commonly asked questions about partnering with refugee resettlement agencies to provide housing to newcomers.

Models of Welcome: World Learning

Finding safe, sanitary housing is consistently cited as the biggest challenge in refugee resettlement in the U.S. This video shows World Learning’s use of its School for International Training campus to house Afghan newcomers in Brattleboro, VT as a model for innovative approaches to housing refugee newcomers.

U.S. Housing Crisis Affects Refugees Alongside Others

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.

Rent Pre-Payment Loan Toolkit

The International Rescue Committee’s Rent Pre-Payment Loan Toolkit is shared for use with refugees and other newcomers who can benefit from securing a no-interest loan from the IRC’s Center for Economic Opportunity to pre-pay a landlord.
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