Lezlie Sterling/lsterling@sacbee.com

Abdulrahman, Alaya, right, and his wife and son, Wafaa and Adham, 21, (respectively) receive keys to their new home from Sacramento Habitat for Humanity. The family of nine had been living in a two-bedroom apartment. They came to the U.S. to escape the "brutal killings plaguing the streets of their home country," which is Syria.

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