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Held in Austin, Texas, the 2025 Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project brought together volunteers from around the world to build 25 affordable, energy-efficient homes in the Whisper Valley development.

“If you’ve ever wondered what love sounds like, you’re about to hear it,” Garth Brooks said to the homeowners and volunteers gathered during the 2023 Carter Work Project in Charlotte, North Carolina. Here are just a few of the faces that bring the time, talent and gifts needed to make the project possible. 

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. 

Improving informal settlements can increase a country’s economic development, income, health and education outcomes, as shown in the in-depth, data-driven report released by Habitat and our research partner, the International Institute for Environment and Development.

In collaboration with Villgro Innovations Foundation, the Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter has released a new report exploring how the construction sector in India can scale up the use of green building materials to drive sustainability and support climate goals.

At Habitat, we partner with families, communities and local organizations across the U.S. to help older adults improve their homes and their quality of life so they can flourish where they live.

These two new reports examine the need and propose solutions for encouraging the incremental adaptation of housing in informal settlements using sustainable building practices, as well as avenues for overcoming investment barriers and how to attract more climate tech investors in the sheltertech sector.

“We get to see despair transform into hope over and over,” President Carter once said. Take a look back at the kinds of inspiring moments that spark when homeowners, volunteers and supporters come together under a common mission.

Among the Carter Work Project 2024 volunteers were current Twin Cities Habitat homeowners, who understand firsthand the challenges of unstable housing. This year, they’re excited to continue to give back and help their future neighbors build homes, community and hope in St. Paul, Minnesota.