“A hotel room is always a hotel room; it’s never home.” The uncertainty and crowding in temporary housing is causing growing tensions for Afghan evacuees in the United Kingdom, especially women, who face dangerous conditions. Eight months after the UK evacuated about 18,000 people from Afghanistan following the Taliban’s takeover of the country in August, many Afghan evacuees are still in temporary housing, usually hotel rooms. Women we spoke with described a heightened risk of domestic violence, surveillance, and constraints on their freedom of movement in temporary housing. The UK should step up the pace of providing more long-term housing and support services for Afghan refugees and ensure that the trauma these women dealt with before and during their flight from Afghanistan is not exacerbated by conditions now affecting their mental health and keeping them from integrating into the community. | 
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