On World Habitat Day, local officials in Manhattan’s East Village unveiled a sign proclaiming East 6th Street between Avenues C and D as “Jimmy Carter Way,” in a celebration featuring Habitat CEO Jonathan Reckford and local leaders.
August 2025 marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Our response to the storm was a major moment for the organization – unrivaled in our U.S. network’s history.
Habitat for Humanity and Wells Fargo have collaborated for nearly three decades, sharing a vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Nationwide, Wells Fargo Builds helped families build or improve 386 homes in 2021.
Last year, more than 827,607 Habitat for Humanity volunteers built homes, spoke out and spread the word to help families around the world have safe, decent places to live. Learn more about what it means to be a volunteer with Habitat.
Habitat’s vision is a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Habitat is committed to removing barriers to affordable homeownership for the most vulnerable communities in more than 70 countries around the world.
Find out more about the qualifications for Habitat homeownership.
Everyone deserves to live in a stronger and healthier community — and to contribute to how that community is shaped over time, which is why we have focused on advocating for policies that protect and strengthen neighborhoods and enable communities to thrive.
More than 50 million people in Latin America live on dirt floors. When a household with dirt floors has children, that means the ground they play on is a health risk. Since 2022, we’ve partnered with families to replace more than 30,000 dirt floors with concrete.
We’ve rounded up four key takeaways from the full report, which provides valuable data on the current U.S. housing market. This report was released by Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies and proudly sponsored by Habitat.
This project will focus on helping build safe, decent housing for communities living in extreme poverty in the Indian states of Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Odisha and Tamil Nadu.