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What is poverty?

Learn how poverty is defined in the U.S. and around the world, and how the reach and impact of poverty affects people.

Haiti: We have come so far

Marie Gemma Donai is one of more than 50,000 families served through Habitat’s disaster recovery work since the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

Habitat helps make markets work

Learn how Habitat uses microfinance and other financial innovations to help more people access housing solutions.

Coming full circle: A Habitat leader shares her story

Lynda Henriksen, director of communications and fund development at Habitat Brant-Norfolk, shares how she’s seen firsthand — through her own life and by working at Habitat — just how important the role of stable housing can play in lifting people up.

Students opening doors for their community and their futures

In 2015, 29th Street Road in Evans, Colorado, was a plot of undeveloped land. In 2019, it is a growing neighborhood of Habitat homes, 14 so far, transformed in part by high school students who are changing lives — including their own.

Habitat homeowner reflects on the current state of housing advocacy

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.

Planting the mustard seed

In the midst of grief, one family began a journey to healing by serving with Habitat. Donating their family car to the Cars for Homes program is their latest step.

Collegial construction in Virginia

Orientation for incoming freshmen at Virginia’s Roanoke College includes building a brand new home alongside a Habitat family.

A new hope-filled future

He lost it all in the tsunami, but G. Sundaramurthy has a Habitat house — and new hope.

Habitat for Humanity announces new initiative to support veterans

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