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.
These families are coming together to build homes, hope and community alongside volunteers and President and Mrs. Carter during the Carter Work Project 2018.
Mario Fourney takes joy in providing his children with a safe, secure home to grow up in.
A look at how learning the tool skills to tackle DIY projects at Habitat ReStore is easier than you think.
An estimated 6% of households in Latin America and the Caribbean have predominantly dirt floors, leaving millions of families at risk of catching serious, sometimes deadly diseases. By replacing dirt floors with concrete, we can help vulnerable families improve their health outcomes.
Habitat Uganda’s affordable loans available to low-income families have dramatically changed the lives of David and his family.
Tornadoes in Georgia, Hurricane Floyd in North Carolina and Hurricanes Mitch and Georges in Central America were some of the Disaster Response efforts we worked on from 1996 to 2000.
Vanderbilt University researchers have released a report that points the way to strong, stable neighborhoods with affordable housing.
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.
Affordable homeownership has long-lasting and life-changing impacts on households. In this evidence brief, Habitat takes a look at who currently has access to homeownership and what factors play a role in the U.S.