Advocacy resources and publications
Want to learn more about Habitat for Humanity’s policy and advocacy efforts?
The following resources and publications will give you an in-depth look at how Habitat’s global network changes laws and shapes policies to improve access to adequate and affordable housing for families in need of a place to call home.
U.S. National Policy Platform
Habitat’s National Policy Platform outlines the policies we seek to influence and proposes solutions at all levels of government to address the need for affordable, lasting homeownership for all by increasing affordable homeownership supply, ensuring equitable homeownership access and improving homeownership resilience.
2025-2026 Federal Policy Agenda
Habitat’s Federal Policy Agenda for the 119th Congress highlights key federal policy priorities and federal resources and programs that are critical to Habitat’s ability to expand homeownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income families in the U.S. and globally. It also highlights priorities for supporting nonprofit organizations.
Cost of Home campaign resources
Cost of Home campaign resources share information on the need for home affordability in the U.S. and the policy solutions the five-year campaign employed to address it in communities across the nation.
Tools for global housing advocates
This research page highlights global evidence on improving housing in informal settlements, featuring key data and analysis that inform Habitat’s advocacy to elevate housing in local, national, regional and global agendas and foreign assistance.
With this guide, housing practitioners and development experts alike will learn about the transformational impact of housing in achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This can serve as a starting point for action, research and analysis for measuring housing impact through the SDGs’ monitoring framework of targets and indicators.
This progress report gives an overview of the global effort toward achieving SDG 11.1. More specifically, this reports highlights the regression of SDG 11.1 — one of five targets in regression prior to COVID-19.
This guide contains steps, techniques and case supports to assist you in growing your affordable-housing advocacy efforts.
The Sustainable Development Goal 11 policy brief highlights the functions and structures of SDG 11 and the work Habitat does to support it.
Solid Ground: Resources for land advocates
This report and its accompanying case studies document and analyze the advocacy efforts of the Solid Ground campaign to foster support for our continued work to improve land policy long beyond the close of the campaign.
The Solid Ground campaign issue briefs offer in-depth analysis on the four thematic areas addressed through the global advocacy campaign, including case studies highlighting our work around the world.
Shelter reports
These policy-specific reports highlight shelter issues around the world and in the U.S.
Public statements
Read news updates from our policy experts regarding legislative and regulatory developments that allow us to help build homes, communities and hope.
