Because zoning restrictions and high land prices can make it prohibitively difficult to build or preserve affordable homes in opportunity-connected communities, we have focused on advocating for policies related to land acquisition, use and development.
After a 2021 tornado outbreak, families in two of the affected Kentucky communities worked alongside volunteers to build their homes during blitz builds supported by The Home Depot Foundation.
With a small loan from Habitat Brazil, Maria Lucia improved her home and life for her 7-year-old daughter Bia.
Urban Institute developed a searchable database of the policy successes and systems changes influenced by local and state Habitat organizations in the first four years of the Cost of Home advocacy campaign.
After raising her own kids, Carrie has signed on once again for days filled with homework, basketball games, music lessons — and she’ll get to do it all in her own home thanks to a repair program for older homeowners.
Check out these projects to see how amazing transformations like these help more families achieve strength, stability and self-reliance through shelter.
Habitat is committed to resource- and energy-efficient building practices. Habitat’s Construction Technologies department provides our affiliates with construction techniques that conserve natural resources and reduce long-term costs for Habitat homeowners.
Our Homes, Communities, Hope + You campaign was a network-wide fundraising initiative in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to support Habitat’s work in communities across the U.S. and around the world.
Habitat for Humanity Northern Arizona is building 500-square foot starter homes to bring more affordable housing options to Flagstaff, Arizona. An affordable down payment and an equity savings program are just two of the many features that make the affiliate’s starter home model so transformative.
Each year since 2007, lumber milled from the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree has been used to help a family build their Habitat house.