First grader fundraises for windows of Habitat houses in Kentucky
Kentucky first-grader Ellie Rue has written and illustrated a book that has raised enough money to buy windows for two new Habitat houses in her neighborhood.
Kentucky first-grader Ellie Rue has written and illustrated a book that has raised enough money to buy windows for two new Habitat houses in her neighborhood.
While every Habitat house is built to keep families safe, warm and dry, their designs and layouts vary based on local style, climate, cultural customs and locally available materials.
Habitat’s Solid Ground campaign helps create housing policy in Honduras that improves land access for families like Estella’s.
Families with low incomes face the double burden of high costs for housing and energy despite the tendency to consume less energy. Offering energy-efficient homes to these households can reduce both greenhouse gas emissions and the homes’ energy costs and resulting energy burden.
One couple shares an inspiring story of how they supplied the interior portion of their dream house with a substantial amount of building materials from their local Habitat ReStore.
Health and housing are inextricably linked. Meet two women who took action to build their own bathrooms and improve their family’s health and find out more about how we advocate for policies that improve housing health around the world.
Habitat for Humanity International, a leading global nonprofit dedicated to innovating new ways of building, repairing and financing safe, affordable homes around the world, and Symbiotics, the leading market access platform for impact investing, have come together to launch MicroBuild® Fund 2, a global private credit fund designed to expand and deepen the affordable housing finance ecosystem in emerging markets.
Affordable housing advocate and Habitat homeowner Juanita Jensen shares how homeownership changed her family’s life and what we must do to ensure that families have stable, affordable places to call home.