Snizhana Bora was forced from her home in Kharkiv by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
She left her father, a brother and husband behind to bring her mother and four-year-old daughter to safety in Canada — only to spend the last three months in a desperate search for somewhere to live.
“It was terrible. I really cried every day,” she told CBC News.
“[It’s hard] when you’ve lost everything and you can’t find it here — especially a house, this feeling of home.”
Calgary settlement agencies that work with families like hers say chronic underfunding and a national housing crisis are leaving many newcomers homeless
