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Habitat houses: Recognizing best-in-class designs
From building resilient, hurricane-proof homes in Florida to prototyping with a 3D-printed home in Virginia, Habitat affiliates in the U.S. seek innovative solutions to local, pressing needs. The 2021 Habitat House Design Contest, generously sponsored for a second year by Simpson Strong-Tie, invited local affiliates to submit their home designs across a range of categories, including equity, multifamily, sustainability and many more.
Habitat houses: Recognizing best-in-class designs
From building resilient, hurricane-proof homes in Florida to prototyping with a 3D-printed home in Virginia, Habitat affiliates in the U.S. seek innovative solutions to local, pressing needs. The 2021 Habitat House Design Contest sponsored by Simpson Strong-Tie invited local affiliates to submit their home designs across a range of categories, including equity, multifamily, sustainability and many more.
House plans that turn ideas into reality
Learn who drafts Habitat for Humanity house plans and see some examples of homes we’ve built with families around the country.
Closing the racial homeownership gap in the Twin Cities
The homeownership gap between Black and white households is more prominent in Minnesota’s Twin Cities than in any other metropolitan area, with the nation’s largest Black and white homeownership gap at 51 percentage points — more than 20 percentage points above the national average. Learn how Twin Cities Habitat is responding to the challenge of closing the gap.
Impact
By partnering with Habitat, families and communities transform their lives with the incredible effects of safe and affordable shelter, including improvements in health, safety, child development, economic opportunity and educational achievement.
Drew and Jonathan Scott join Habitat for Humanity to kick off monthlong Home is the Key campaign
The Scott Brothers join Habitat to kick off the Home is the Key campaign, which puts the spotlight on affordable housing and enlists leading corporations and their customers to support housing solutions.
AbbVie donates $50 million to Habitat for Humanity’s long-term recovery efforts in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico
AbbVie, a research-based global biopharmaceutical company, announced a donation of $100 million to two organizations, Habitat for Humanity International and Direct Relief, to strengthen access to housing and healthcare in Puerto Rico.
Empowering through shelter: Habitat donors share why they give
Habitat for Humanity supporters have made a lasting difference in the lives of families in need of safe and affordable housing. Seven Habitat donors share why supporting Habitat is important to them and why they share our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
National service strengthens Charlotte community
Habitat AmeriCorps members and the AmeriCorps host site manager from Habitat Charlotte Region share how the AmeriCorps program has impacted their lives and work.