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Habitat for Humanity International CEO Jonathan Reckford issues statement opposing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s proposal to impose steep rent increases on low-income users of public housing.

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. 

Let’s hear directly from those who work so hard to create decent, affordable places to call home.

“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!”

Earlier this year, the MacArthur Foundation released the results of a survey of U.S. adults conducted to inform the work of the foundation’s How Housing Matters initiative.

“You don’t have to swing a hammer,” one Habitat volunteer says. It takes a lot of people performing a variety of tasks to help families find decent shelter. Consider adding one of these creative efforts to your to-do list.

For the Bennett family, their Habitat Evansville home came at just the right time.

Habitat doesn’t just build new houses; we also do repairs like help painting Jo and John’s house when money was tight for the couple. Now they volunteer for us.