Hazami Sayed, executive director of Philadelphia's Al-Bustan center for Arabic culture, has one son in college and another about to go. In the fall she will be an empty nester - and ready, willing, and able to open her West Philadelphia home to a new initiative designed to assuage the world's worst refugee crisis since World War II. "With both my boys away next year I would gladly accommodate one or two refugees and help them get resettled," she said of the national initiative that proposes to lodge refugees in private homes using private funds. Currently, refugees are resettled in apartments that they rent using federal subsidies that last about nine months. They get time-limited...
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