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What is a mortgage?

In this mortgage guide, learn about the most common types of mortgages, how they work and the ways Habitat improves access to affordable mortgages.

Shelter Venture Fund

Habitat’s Shelter Venture Fund invests in innovative startup firms in order to help make quality products and services available to low-income families to improve their shelter and living conditions.

Making affordable, safe, sustainable housing a global reality

Habitat for Humanity is working with the Communitas Coalition to urge the United Nations to help make cities and homes around the world more affordable, safe and sustainable for all.

No place like home

After raising her own kids, Carrie has signed on once again for days filled with homework, basketball games, music lessons — and she’ll get to do it all in her own home thanks to a repair program for older homeowners.

Partnering to create a community

A partnership between Habitat Zambia and the government has helped families like Jonathan’s create a community of hope and homeownership.

Residents empowering residents

Through Habitat’s Solid Ground global advocacy campaign, families in Zambia — particularly those headed by women — are learning and asserting their land rights.

Housing Opportunities and Mission Engagement

We believe in a world where everyone — no matter who we are or where we come from — deserves a decent place to live. Habitat’s leaders have committed to creating a space where people of all races, all faiths and all backgrounds come together in common cause.

What is poverty?

Learn how poverty is defined in the U.S. and around the world, and how the reach and impact of poverty affects people.

Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar rings in the holiday season with DIY gingerbread house kits that support affordable housing

Continuing its three-year partnership with Habitat for Humanity International, Lazy Dog committed a minimum donation of $100,000 this year to support the global housing nonprofit’s mission.

Home is the key to well-being

For Aretha, the accessibility features in her Habitat home “make a big difference” for her and her two children, 23-year-old Devin and 22-year-old Zacaya.

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