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The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Lifestyle
Jeff Gammage

More Afghan evacuees now finding homes, even as resettlement collides with the housing crisis

PHILADELPHIA — Months after he escaped Afghanistan aboard a U.S. military plane, Mohibullah Hasrat found himself walking the sidewalks of Philadelphia, hoping to find what for many evacuees had become an elusive prize:

A place for his family to live.

He traversed the city, north, south, east, and west, but found few homes or apartments for rent. And when he did find one, the landlords had set high rent — too high for someone new to the United States, who had neither a job nor a reference.

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