International advocacy for housing
Access to decent, affordable housing is essential to well-being, but billions of people lack an adequate home. Learn how Habitat for Humanity advocates for improved housing worldwide.
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The Fair Housing Act
Leading U.S. housing policy expert Dr. Richard Rothstein explains the Fair Housing Act, its context, and the consequences of barriers to equal and affordable housing.
Safe in this new house
Marlito Sarda’s Habitat house marks a new beginning after Philippines quake and typhoon.
What is housing equity?
What does it mean to have equity in housing, and why is it so important?
Housing is the prescription we need
Megan Sandel, MD, MPH, associate professor of pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine and Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat, discuss how the coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating the housing crisis we were already facing.
Because of this house poetry
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.
Making a house a home
“It didn’t seem like something this good could happen to us,” says 17-year-old Kymberly of her family’s Habitat home in Cleveland, Tennessee. With the support of Whirlpool, families like hers are creating decent, affordable places to call home.
Historic housing discrimination in the U.S.
Too many among the general public aren’t aware that the egregious racial disparities in America that exist today — in education, employment, health and wealth — are linked to Black families’ exclusion from accessing decent and affordable shelter – something we all need to thrive.
Habitat for Humanity receives $1.25 million donation from The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation to help improve wellness of low-income older Americans by combining home repairs with health care services
Habitat will implement award-winning aging-in-place research by Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in five communities in the United States.
Habitat for Humanity hails House of Representatives’ bipartisan passage of legislation that will lower cost of affordable housing development
Habitat applauds the House of Representatives passage of HOME Act and urges Senate to pass the act, which allows donated home appraisals to keep costs of habitat homes low.