In Canaan, an informal settlement in Haiti of families displaced by the deadly 2010 earthquake, Habitat installed 200 energy-efficient streetlamps in capital-area neighborhoods and now is working to create a pool of qualified residents in each neighborhood to maintain them.
Working alongside homeowners and volunteers, Habitat Philadelphia started a home repair program to complete critical repairs that help preserve affordable homeownership while improving health and safety.
For low-income households and households of color in the U.S., homeownership can be a catalyst to wealth building. In this evidence brief, Habitat takes a look at how these gains from homeownership vary by income, gender and race/ethnicity.
Check out this year’s house photos, featuring volunteers from the 2018 Carter Work Project in Mishawaka and South Bend, Indiana.
Learn how painting upholstery can easily renew a vintage barrel chair in this step-by-step DIY furniture project tutorial.
Once you join a Habitat program, we hope that you’re able to build with us. However, Unexpected events come up. If your plans change, please let us know right away. Here is how we can help.
“If you’ve ever wondered what love sounds like, you’re about to hear it,” Garth Brooks said to the homeowners and volunteers gathered during the 2023 Carter Work Project in Charlotte, North Carolina. Here are just a few of the faces that bring the time, talent and gifts needed to make the project possible.
Habitat for Humanity’s new report, “Informal Settlement Improvements and Women’s Health,” reveals that improving housing in informal settlements promotes positive health outcomes for women and entire communities, advancing sustainable development.
The Urban Instititute conducted interviews with stakeholders covering seven different policies that were supported directly or indirectly by Cost of Home. Participants shared background and details on the policies they supported as well as the impact of those policy changes on their communities.
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.
