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.

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Demystifying the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

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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.
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