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Cost of Home impact

Explore the Cost of Home campaign’s impact on affordability, policy successes led by Habitat organizations, advocacy strategies, and an Urban Institute report assessing key policy changes shaping home affordability nationwide.

Building a better world through advocacy

With the support of allies like Whirlpool Corporation, Habitat’s U.S. advocacy campaign has helped to influence policy and reshape systems to increase access to affordable housing.

Cost of Home searchable policy database

Urban Institute developed a searchable database of the policy successes and systems changes influenced by local and state Habitat organizations in the first four years of the Cost of Home advocacy campaign.

Cost of Home: housing affordability campaign

On June 12, Habitat for Humanity will launch our first national advocacy campaign to mobilize local Habitat organizations, partners, volunteers and community members across the country to find solutions and help create policies that will allow 10 million individuals to have access to affordable homes.

Collaborators | Cost of Home

Thank you to these supporters and endorsing organizations for helping to make the Cost of Home campaign possible.

Act now | Cost of Home

Take action to support the campaign today, and, together, we can help make the #CostOfHome something we all can afford.

Home construction

Families in need of a decent place to live build safe and affordable homes in partnership with Habitat for Humanity.

Home Preservation

We offer home repair services like painting, landscaping, weatherization and minor repairs, ensuring that families live in safe, decent homes for years to come.

The Carters: Advocating for home affordability

During President and Mrs. Carter’s tenure in the White House and the years that followed, their focus on protecting and advancing human rights never wavered.

A difficult year that highlighted the importance of being able to afford the cost of home

Habitat for Humanity International board member Ronald Terwilliger reflects on the second anniversary of Habitat’s Cost of Home U.S. advocacy campaign and why he is a longtime supporter of Habitat’s work.

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