Earlier this year, Phala, Chariya and their four children moved into a climate-sensitive Habitat home they helped build Cambodia’s Battambang province. The look of their home is similar to others in the area — but the difference is in the details.
One year after the historically devastating hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, Habitat for Humanity continues to work with affected communities in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.
The affordable housing that your support makes possible might differ from place to place, but the hope you help build always remains the same.
“Habitat educated me,” says Yondella Hall. “I didn’t know leaking and standing water could affect my health.”
Jason’s disability didn’t stop him from partnering with Habitat for Humanity to build an accessible home for himself.
We are encouraged by the commitment to housing that this bill demonstrates and support its provisions to streamline existing programs, increase the supply of affordable homes and preserve our aging housing stock.
Every day a family spends in their Habitat home is a day of empowerment and opportunity.
The Chile earthquake, the Haiti earthquake, Typhoon Ketsana, earthquakes in Indonesia, Cyclone Nargis, Cyclone Sidr and Hurricane Felix were some of the Disaster Response efforts we worked on from 2006 to 2010.
When we ask Habitat homeowners what their homes make possible for them, their answers — just as they share them with us — fit together like poetry. The powerful poetry of lives changed and futures transformed.
A Habitat for Humanity house is a hand up, a step up for families who — many of them for the very first time — are achieving a decent, affordable place to live.