Our Innovation Awards recognize global innovators developing solutions to advance affordable housing. The 2021 winners in the inspirational practices category, generously sponsored by Whirlpool Corporation, developed practical solutions that improved housing in Germany, Colombia and India.
The homeownership gap between Black and white households is more prominent in Minnesota’s Twin Cities than in any other metropolitan area, with the nation’s largest Black and white homeownership gap at 51 percentage points — more than 20 percentage points above the national average. Learn how Twin Cities Habitat is responding to the challenge of closing the gap.
In Nepal’s Eastern Terai region, families are building a brighter future for themselves with the help of the Hilti Foundation’s innovative cement bamboo frame technology. Habitat and the Hilti Foundation are working together to make the disaster-resilient and sustainable building method a viable market leader in Nepal.
Financial support and housing programs from federal agencies like the U.S. Department of Agriculture can have a major impact on the number of families Habitat affiliates can partner with. For North St. Louis County Habitat in rural Minnesota, USDA funding has helped the affiliate increase their affordable homebuilding.
View our policy solutions to help remedy years of discriminatory housing policies and join us in helping to ensure all families have a stable, affordable place to call home.
Together, we and our partners are committed to helping the people of Haiti do the incredibly hard work of rebuilding so that they are safer and more secure in their homes the next time disaster strikes.
Tornadoes in Georgia, Hurricane Floyd in North Carolina and Hurricanes Mitch and Georges in Central America were some of the Disaster Response efforts we worked on from 1996 to 2000.
