A home-sharing platform hopes to connect refugees in need of temporary housing with homeowners who have spare rooms to rent, in an effort to help ease Toronto's shelter crisis.
in need of temporary housing with homeowners who have spare rooms to rent, in an effort to help ease the shelter crisis in Toronto.
Homeowners willing to rent out a furnished bedroom can register online at refugeehousing.ca to be matched with a recently arrived refugee or asylum seeker, set a rental rate and sign a fixed-term home-share agreement. The program aims to house 1,000 refugees in the Toronto area with funding from the Northpine Foundation, whose philanthropic efforts include helping refugees in Canada.
Meanwhile, the hosts will get to experience different cultures and contribute “to solving a difficult situation in our society,” he said.
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