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Emma Funfar and Dot Hannon — one a Habitat Cape Cod homeowner, the other a volunteer — have become close friends. Their bond, as happens so often, has lasted long after the build.

With Habitat Mexico’s help, Javier has built a home for his family and has seen an immediate change.

A White House proposal to reorganize the federal government would greatly devalue investments in affordable housing, Habitat for Humanity warns.

Columbia County Habitat in New York has built townhouses with Passive House design, which use 70 percent less energy than conventional construction.

Later this month, a Global Village team will travel to Recife, Brazil, to help repair homes — and to use their love of soccer as a way to build unity.

The sound of song, prayer and then hammers took hold of the Habitat for Humanity work site on the first build day of the 35th Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project in Mishawaka, Indiana.

“Every day I when wake up in this house and I sit in the back warming up my car or I sit in the front or I’m shoveling a sidewalk, I just look up at it and sometimes still can’t believe that I own this. This is mine!”

Habitat for Humanity’s 34th Carter Work Project begins in Canada July 9. During the week that follows, hundreds of volunteers will build homes alongside 150 families, including Indigenous families, at sites across Canada.

Jonathan T.M. Reckford is chief executive officer of Habitat for Humanity International, a global nonprofit housing organization that helps families build and improve places to call home.

Yiftu dreaded the rainy season, which caused her home to flood, until she partnered with Habitat Ethiopia to improve her family’s living conditions.