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Survey examines the belief that housing affordability issues can be solved
In recent weeks, we’ve shared the striking results of the MacArthur Foundation’s 2014 How Housing Matters survey.
Research series: How does housing affect children’s education?
Making direct connections between housing and its impact on children’s education is challenging, but studies have drawn a pathway between owning a decent, affordable, and stable home and experiencing positive educational outcomes.
Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project 2018 registration
The 2018 Carter Work Project will be hosted by Habitat for Humanity of St. Joseph County, Indiana, on Aug. 26-31. We invite you to join President and Mrs. Carter and hundreds of volunteers to help build or improve more than 30 homes in Mishawaka and South Bend.
Safe in this new house
Marlito Sarda’s Habitat house marks a new beginning after Philippines quake and typhoon.
Family breaks the cycle of housing instability
Jose Luis shares his family’s long struggle to become homeowners and what it means to now be able to live in their dream home.
How substandard housing affects families and the difference Habitat is making
When housing isn’t affordable and secure, families suffer.
What is housing equity?
What does it mean to have equity in housing, and why is it so important?
Because of this house poetry
When we ask Habitat homeowners what their homes make possible for them, their answers — just as they share them with us — fit together like poetry. The powerful poetry of lives changed and futures transformed.
Making a house a home
“It didn’t seem like something this good could happen to us,” says 17-year-old Kymberly of her family’s Habitat home in Cleveland, Tennessee. With the support of Whirlpool, families like hers are creating decent, affordable places to call home.