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Earlier this year, Habitat Brazil partnered with young volunteers from Guilherme Dummont Villares and Saint Francis high schools to improve the living conditions of 18 families in the favela of Heliopolis.

This fall, Amarillo Habitat celebrated the completion of its 100th home, a milestone made even more special by help from an organization that helped with its first.

Choosing to put aside rivalries, Wisconsin seniors from seven high schools raised more than 110,000 to build a home with Greater Fox Cities Area Habitat.

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.

Families in need of affordable housing live everywhere: villages, small towns, sprawling cities, your community. What does housing need look like where you live?

Partnering with Habitat brings homeowners a world of new opportunities: financial security, potential advancement in jobs and education, independence, a strong sense of community and — perhaps best of all — the freedom and security of living without crushing housing costs or overwhelming worry.

Learn how poverty is defined, why affordable housing can be difficult to find, how housing relates to health and more.

After more than a year of renovations performed by more than 900 volunteers, one Habitat family is excited to start the New Year in their new home.

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.

In order to improve that access to land and ensure more security of tenure in Bolivia, Habitat is training female heads of household to serve as community leaders and secure tenure promoters in the city of Cochabamba.