Housing access is a crack in the foundation of Lancaster’s heritage of welcome.
In 2021-2022, as the Housing Specialist at the largest resettlement agency in Lancaster, ReHome's co-founder Joe Landis witnessed our community mobilizing to continue its heritage of welcoming refugees - Afghans in particular at that time. He also saw how many refugees who were hand-selected for resettlement still face housing insecurity even years after arriving. This insecurity holds new neighbors back from rebuilding their lives.
ReHome provides an online hub for the best local housing opportunities from welcoming landlords, so that newcomers are no longer shut out from rental housing opportunities.
When a household applies for a unit through
ReHome Marketplace, they access landlords who care about welcoming refugees, they avoid fees, and they can showcase their trustworthiness and dependability as tenants no matter how long they've been in the US.
When a household needs additional support to qualify for a unit, we help community initiatives fill the gaps. A guide for landlords to use our rental platform is
here, and a guide for refugees and their allies is
here.
Your support allows us to continue developing ReHome Marketplace and ensure it's used to get more families into homes. Thank you!!