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As Habitat celebrates 40 years of building in your community and all over the world, here are 40 facts about us.

At Habitat, we believe every community deserves not only the right to recover, but the power to thrive. That’s why we’re reimagining disaster recovery — building resilience in housing and restoring lives with dignity and justice at the center of all we do.

PolicyLink’s Kalima Rose reflects on the role of advocacy organizations in the fair housing debate.

Habitat has helped thousands of people obtain access to safe and reliable water and adequate sanitation, improving personal and home hygiene. Check out just a few of the successes we’ve celebrated through our WASH strategy in these case studies.

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.

The five-year campaign seeks policy changes at the local, national and global levels to increase access to adequate housing in informal settlements.  

Habitat for Humanity’s new report found that—within the first year—key improvements in informal settlement housing can improve the health of women by preventing illness and incidents of gender-based violence.

A decent, affordable house can have a significant impact on a family’s health.

For teenagers Jamian and Jaquille, the best gift they’ve ever received is the home their mother built for them. Now the holidays are about celebrating the gifts the house keeps giving — a place to study, a place to have friends over, a place to create their family traditions.