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Enhancing Refugee Housing Solutions Annual Housing Needs Assessment Report: Stakeholders Serving ORR-Eligible Populations | FY 2025

by on December 15, 2025

The results of RHS’ two FY 2025 surveys provide comprehensive measurable insights to equip key stakeholders with data to optimize services, guide strategic partnerships, ensure effective and efficient use of funds, and implement solutions. In turn, these insights will be used to enhance housing stability and self-sufficiency for ORR-eligible populations as they become part of…

Enhancing Refugee Housing Solutions Annual Housing Needs Assessment Report: Resettlement Network Serving ORR-Eligible Populations | FY 2025

by on August 29, 2025

The results of this survey provide measurable insights highlighting the critical nature of this work to equip key stakeholders with the data necessary to optimize services, guide strategic partnerships, ensure effective and efficient use of funds, and implement solutions that enhance housing stability and self-sufficiency for ORR-eligible populations into thriving U.S communities.

State Housing Needs Assessment Report: A Survey of State Refugee Coordinators

by on September 30, 2024

The State Housing Needs Assessment survey, conducted by Refugee Housing Solutions, captures critical insights into the housing challenges faced by ORR-eligible populations in 26 states. With key data on housing affordability, service gaps, and barriers to stable housing, this report highlights areas where targeted solutions are needed most. The findings will inform ongoing efforts to…

Confronting Compassion Fatigue: Understanding the Arc of Public Support for Displaced Populations in Turkey, Colombia, and Europe

by on January 12, 2024

“While compassion is extremely powerful, it is also highly vulnerable to fatigue. In the long term, politicians must anticipate the gradual ebbing of solidarity by putting in place sound policies to meet practical community needs amid large-scale migration.” Historic levels of global displacement have put intense pressure on systems designed to protect people fleeing conflict,…

Shifting Realities at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Immigration Enforcement and Control in a Fast-Evolving Landscape

by on January 12, 2024

Drawing from visits to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities along the entire southwest border and extensive interviews of governmental and nongovernmental officials in the U.S., Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa Rica, the MPI report emphasizes that border control cannot be achieved at the border alone. Success will require … significant investments in capacity as…