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In recent weeks, we’ve shared the striking results of the MacArthur Foundation’s 2014 How Housing Matters survey.

It had been a year since Ernie, an outgoing 87-year-old U.S. Army veteran, had been outside on his own. After months of this kind of physical isolation, and months of encouragement from his social worker, Ernie applied for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Lowell’s Critical Home Repair Program.

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

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.

With the help of volunteers and donors like you, we are able to provide shelter assistance, education, training and partnerships to the affected individuals who find themselves in unthinkable situations rebuilding after a disaster strikes.

Through Habitat’s Collegiate Challenge alternative break volunteer trips, young people ages 18-25 team up in groups of five or more for a week of building strength, stability and self-reliance alongside future Habitat homeowners.

Our resources hub is a launching point for the other housing organizations to learn about and implement Habitat’s innovative aging in place solutions, resources and data with the goal of helping even more older adults age in the homes and communities they love.