With support from the Hilti Foundation, Habitat for Humanity’s Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter is working to expand low-income families’ access to innovative housing products, services and financing through market-based solutions.
Habitat for Humanity works to help older adults age at home and in communities of their choice through our Aging in Place program. Check out common questions about our work.
Habitat calls on delegates at the COP27 climate change conference to prioritize adequate and affordable housing, achieve a net-zero future for carbon emissions, and meet the mitigation and adaptation needs of human settlements as part of future actions in response to climate change.
Throughout the 2022 holiday season, several Habitat for Humanity corporate partners are coming together to support the organization’s mission of building homes, community and hope by raising funds to help make affordable homeownership more accessible to families in the U.S. and around the world.
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.
Whether you’ve advocated before or are just getting started, you have the power to impact housing policies. Here are six overarching practices to keep in mind as you advocate for adequate, affordable housing.
“It means the world to me. It gives me the actual ability to have my son come over without me having to physically help him up the steps and everything else,” says Robert, who was able to build a new ramp for his home with the support of Habitat and the Wells Fargo Foundation.
Habitat will work with communities, governments and partners around the world to fulfill the commitment made at the CGI 2023 Meeting that commenced today in New York by seeking policy changes at the local, national and global levels.
On Sunday, the nation joined former President Jimmy Carter in celebrating his 99th birthday, and today a record number of volunteers are honoring him in a way he understands well — by getting to work.
