ReHome

ReHome connects fully-vetted refugee tenants with quality homes. www.gofundme.com/f/support-rehome

Have you ever heard of the Refugee-Welcoming Rental Market (RWRM)? It’s a better rental market for everyone: landlords can easily grow their rental business, refugee families can build restored lives, and our communities can flourish together. ReHome is the online hub for services to landlords and tenants in the RWRM. We help resettled refugees by accelerating successful matches with secure rental

homes and welcoming landlords. We help rental housing providers with smooth connections to tenants and services in the refugee housing market. Our platform-based business model creates ways for everyone to get involved in unlocking a better rental market.

11/24/2025

Finding safe, affordable housing is a key step toward self-sufficiency and integration, but it is also a consistent challenge when resettling in the United States. Purpose-built technology is one way to help make it easier. 💻

In a case study written in collaboration with ReHome, we show how a technology solution to match refugees and newcomers with welcoming landlords helps individuals and families find housing stability.

Read more to learn how innovative tools and partnerships are transforming refugee housing: https://refugeehousing.org/resources/rehome-case-study-on-refugee-housing-technology-solutions

09/19/2024

ReHome is building quickly, thanks to early direct support. And we’re just getting started! After we raise enough money to properly launch, we’ll use it to connect more than 1,000 fully-vetted refugees with quality homes as soon as they arrive in the USA. We can now offer tax-deductible donation receipts to those who would like to donate one month’s worth of average US rent ($1,750) or more to the cause. Reach out to [email protected] for more details.

Our most recent accomplishment is announcing our partnership with Refugee Housing Solutions. We’ve been working alongside the resettlement system from the beginning and can’t wait to streamline more rental matches between landlords and resettled refugees!

07/18/2024

GoFundMe support goes right into ReHome’s bank account every Monday, and earlier support makes the biggest impact as it comes in. The link to directly back us is in the comments!

With the help of our first 35 backers, we have been busy over the past 30 days:

- Introducing ReHome Marketplace to the Lancaster Coalition 4 Sustainable Housing as a tool to on-ramp landlords who may be interested in renting to refugees

- Generating pre-committed rental listings for 7 refugee households across 3 resettlement hubs

- Developing the first parts of interactive software to help resettlement providers manage their housing workflows, with the support of a rising senior from Boston University

- Making moves toward more partnerships and contracts, with summer support from another fellow graduate of MIT DUSP and the MIT Sloan School of Management

More exciting updates to come soon about how we’re using your support as a catalyst for refugee housing success! We will try to keep the next 60 days of our crowdfunding journey interesting 😊

07/09/2024

“When a refugee is admitted to the United States, DHS provides them with a Form I-94, Arrival/Departure Record. This is evidence that they are legally in the United States and, for refugees, does not expire” - US Federal Government Fact Sheet on Renting to Refugees

ReHome lets resettled refugees use their I-94 as ID for a rental application, while most rental platforms only accept a Social Security Number. Refugees start a multi-week process for a Social Security Card after they arrive, but we know their housing needs can’t wait.

Help us make sure landlords know that refugees make great tenants! Throughout our 90-day crowdfunding campaign, we’ll keep sharing information about how refugees meet landlords’ expectations on identification, background check, ability to pay, and dependability.

06/20/2024

From our founder Joe Landis:

Happy World Refugee Day! Today, my start-up ReHome is launching our seed fundraising campaign to boost housing for refugees who are resettled to the US. After refugees are vetted overseas and their travel to the US is booked by the federal Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP), ReHome wants to make sure it’s easy for landlords to rent their units to these new neighbors. We have an ambitious model for impact, fueled by a strong business case to become the home base for services to a growing Refugee-Welcoming Rental Market across the US.

Before we launched, 14 of our supporters pledged a total of $5,500 in donations,* ranging from $50 to $2,000 each. Our goal is to get as close to our $250,000 target as possible within 24-48 hours so that we can trigger more generosity from the crowd to seal the deal and make ReHome’s vision happen. Our first pledges will be logged in the campaign as matching donations for others who are inspired to give.

Supporters of ReHome will be added to a group that receives quarterly updates on the number of months’ worth of rent we have saved for refugee families, and how well we are doing at bringing in landlord customers by improving their rental market experience.

*Contributions to ReHome’s crowdfunding campaign are cause-based, but they are not tax deductible since ReHome is an LLC. We want to grow into being an employee-owned company, and this type of innovative business model doesn’t yet exist in the non-profit sector. Our business model serves our impact goals, and our growth model is to use any profits to accelerate research and development of new services for a stronger RWRM.

https://gofund.me/1f036983

06/07/2024

Have you ever heard of the Refugee-Welcoming Rental Market?

It’s a better rental market for everyone: landlords can easily grow their rental business and refugees can build restored lives. Podcast link in comments to learn more!

Many refugees who are flown to the US for resettlement arrive homeless. That’s where we come in at the ReHome Podcast.

You’ll hear from the people most directly involved all about what it means for landlords to rent to refugees, what it means for refugees to find housing success in the US, and how an alternative rental market - the Refugee-Welcoming Rental Market (RWRM) - is coming together to improve things for both refugees and their landlords.

08/16/2023

Renting out your property makes great business sense, and you'll also being doing good!

07/21/2023

Renting to refugee tenants makes good business sense. ReHome makes it easy!

www.rehomemarketplace.com is a one-stop shop for consistent matches for your units within 14 days.

07/20/2023

Refugee resettlement in the US is dependent on the real estate industry because every new refugee needs a rental home. ReHome is an online platform that helps landlords and resettlement agencies thrive within the Refugee-Welcoming Rental Market. The foundation of our platform is an easy process for anyone to efficiently match their unit with refugee tenants at www.rehomemarketplace.com. On top of efficient tenant matching, we are building resettlement-tailored real estate services to help more landlords make use of the amazing opportunity to join the Refugee-Welcoming Rental Market

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