Non-governmental organisations dealing with resettlement find that housing is suddenly one of their top concerns
Washington — Wendy Chan has been working with refugees as a community organiser in the Washington area for years, but until recent weeks she had never focused on housing.
“They’re spread very thin with this new wave of Afghan evacuations,” said Chan, co-founder of refugee-focused non-profit One Journey and NOVA Friends of Refugees. Scenes like that are playing out across the country, where advocates say getting refugees and other new arrivals into stable housing quickly is a critical first step to helping families to move on with their lives.
Instead, the advocacy group explains on its website, they are being resettled through an emergency process for humanitarian reasons or because they have assisted the US military. “Housing really means the world,” he said, especially for the parents with whom his office most often works. That makes it more complicated to help clients who, for instance, have no credit history, he explained.
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