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See some of our favorite photos posted to Instagram during National Women Build Week.

Habitat for Humanity’s 34th Carter Work Project begins in Canada July 9. During the week that follows, hundreds of volunteers will build homes alongside 150 families, including Indigenous families, at sites across Canada.

Recognizing that the payday loan industry is trapping many low-income Americans in a harmful debt cycle, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced on June 2, 2016, a proposed national rule to curb predatory lending practices.

“Every day I when wake up in this house and I sit in the back warming up my car or I sit in the front or I’m shoveling a sidewalk, I just look up at it and sometimes still can’t believe that I own this. This is mine!”

Habitat’s policy-specific report highlights shelter issues around the world and recommends policy solutions.

A majority of Americans believe that it is challenging to find affordable quality housing in their communities and more than half of all adults say they have made at least one trade-off in order to cover their rent or mortgage.

Volcanic eruptions may be subtle or explosive and can produce dangerous lava flows, poisonous gases, and flying rocks and ash. Many volcanic eruptions are also accompanied by other natural hazards. If you live near a volcano, active or dormant, be prepared to act on short notice.

The news was shared with a ceremonial passing of the hammer between Habitat for Humanity of the Charlotte Region and Twin Cities Habitat during the closing ceremony of this year’s weeklong blitz build in Charlotte.

Dialogue among a panel of researchers, practitioners, policymakers and advocates will include barriers to passing and enacting zoning and other types of pro-housing reforms and strategies to overcome them.