About 115,000 Ukrainians have come to the U.S. under a program that allowed U.S. residents to sponsor them
Alex Budnitsky, CEO of Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst, in Brooklyn, N.Y., with clients waiting to be seen by a counselor. Laylah Amatullah Barrayn for The Wall Street Journal
Ukrainian refugees fled their war-torn country last year and found safe haven in the homes of Americans, but now some are struggling to navigate the tight housing market without a sponsor’s support.
“Everything was wonderful until it wasn’t,” said Svitlana Lazarieva, speaking through a translator, about a strain with her family’s sponsor. Ms. Lazarieva said she and her family left their home near Bakhmut, Ukraine, last June, about four months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began. The family planned to resettle in suburban Orange County, about an hour south of Los Angeles.
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