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Your local Habitat ReStore has everything you need for your back to school furniture and décor shopping.

What does pay it forward mean and how is this concept a key component of Habitat for Humanity’s work?

You can help strengthen communities in your area or across the country through a year of service with Habitat AmeriCorps.

Having a new stair lift installed with help from Lowe’s has made it easier for Richard and Carolyn to age safely in place in their home of 46 years. 

From building resilient, hurricane-proof homes in Florida to prototyping with a 3D-printed home in Virginia, Habitat affiliates in the U.S. seek innovative solutions to local, pressing needs. The 2021 Habitat House Design Contest sponsored by Simpson Strong-Tie invited local affiliates to submit their home designs across a range of categories, including equity, multifamily, sustainability and many more. 

The CDC identified housing as an important social determinant of health, highlighting the link between where people live and their health. This evidence brief summarizes research on key factors to improving health through housing in populations with low incomes and illustrates how the work of Habitat for Humanity contributes to positive health outcomes.

Our Better Angels can be a great gift for anyone standing at a crossroads — a graduation, a loss, or an opportunity — and who is eager to find purpose and take action to improve their own lives and the lives of others.

As part of Habitat for Humanity’s ongoing hurricane recovery efforts, generously supported by AbbVie, Habitat works with local businesses to help families in Puerto Rico repair homes affected by hurricanes Irma and Maria. 

Everyone deserves to live in a stronger and healthier community — and to contribute to how that community is shaped over time, which is why we have focused on advocating for policies that protect and strengthen neighborhoods and enable communities to thrive. 

People with low incomes have generally been less civically engaged than the overall population, but homeownership can change that. In this evidence brief, Habitat examines the connections between income, homeownership, and civic engagement, as well as how closing the racial homeownership gap can mitigate racial gaps in civic engagement.