Safe in this new house
Marlito Sarda’s Habitat house marks a new beginning after Philippines quake and typhoon.
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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.
Research series: How does housing affect children’s education?
Making direct connections between housing and its impact on children’s education is challenging, but studies have drawn a pathway between owning a decent, affordable, and stable home and experiencing positive educational outcomes.
Research series: How does housing affect energy efficiency?
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.
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.
Wells Fargo Foundation donates $4.6 million to Habitat for Humanity International to benefit more than 200 families across the U.S.
Habitat for Humanity International and Wells Fargo have worked together for over 30 years to increase housing affordability and help build more prosperous communities. Today, Wells Fargo is donating $4.6 million through the 2025 Wells Fargo Builds program to support new home construction, renovation and repair to benefit more than 200 families in more than 130 communities across the U.S.
House plans that turn ideas into reality
Learn who drafts Habitat for Humanity house plans and see some examples of homes we’ve built with families around the country.
