What We Do
Building Hope Since 1987
We've been working locally since 1987 to provide affordable housing. By June, 2010 we had completed 28 new homes and housed over 132 people.
Habitat affiliates are asked to contribute 10% of their funds raised for general use to Habitat Headquarters' overseas and international building efforts. We send our 10% to our sister affiliate in San Ramon, Costa Rica where we have contributed to the building of 41 homes for families that quite honestly have absolutely nothing.
Our affiliate works hard to find affordable land all over the county, to build simple, decent, affordable homes for families.
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty in one generation - more than 300,000 homes and 1 million people!
It wasn't what Habitat set out to do. We just wanted to eliminate substandard housing and give deserving families a hand up. But since 1976, we've become the 18th largest home builder in America with over 300,000 homes, 1 million family members, and we're growing quickly!! As a consequence, we're observing that the stable home is keeping kids in one school system, where they are challenged to expand their gifts, and receive help and encouragement for college and trade schools after High School graduation. They are going on to get better jobs and have the expectation of home ownership of their own. Thus, the cycle of poverty is broken, and with it an incalculable benefit to society. Local, state and national governments receive property taxes, and no one has even begun to calculate the cost benefit of crimes NOT committed. No other government plan or organizational operation can boast of this, to our knowledge. It's the difference between a hand out and a hand up using self-help home ownership brought about by generous donors, wonderful volunteers, and solid principles that encourage responsibility.