Making accessibility a reality
Jason’s disability didn’t stop him from partnering with Habitat for Humanity to build an accessible home for himself.
Jason’s disability didn’t stop him from partnering with Habitat for Humanity to build an accessible home for himself.
We are encouraged by the commitment to housing that this bill demonstrates and support its provisions to streamline existing programs, increase the supply of affordable homes and preserve our aging housing stock.
Every day a family spends in their Habitat home is a day of empowerment and opportunity.
The Chile earthquake, the Haiti earthquake, Typhoon Ketsana, earthquakes in Indonesia, Cyclone Nargis, Cyclone Sidr and Hurricane Felix were some of the Disaster Response efforts we worked on from 2006 to 2010.
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.
A Habitat for Humanity house is a hand up, a step up for families who — many of them for the very first time — are achieving a decent, affordable place to live.
Families with low incomes face the double burden of high costs for housing and energy despite the tendency to consume less energy. Offering energy-efficient homes to these households can reduce both greenhouse gas emissions and the homes’ energy costs and resulting energy burden.
For the Bennett family, their Habitat Evansville home came at just the right time.
A Habitat home designed for people with disabilities removes obstacles for Oscar and his parents.
Dialogue among a panel of researchers, practitioners, policymakers and advocates will include barriers to passing and enacting zoning and other types of pro-housing reforms and strategies to overcome them.