Counting the global impact

275

community members helped by Habitat Côte d’Ivoire projects in Bélier Region. Habitat helped families build 22 houses and improve their sanitation and hygiene through the construction of two communal biogas latrines, also training young men and women to raise pigs as livestock.

5,000

people expected to become first-generation homebuyers, particularly in communities of color, through Minnesota’s First-Generation Down Payment Assistance Program. The program, which will allocate US$150 million to buyers whose parents never owned a home or who lost one because of foreclosure, was designed based on a pilot co-led by Twin Cities Habitat.

213,936

low-income women and their families partnered with India-based microfinance institution Annapurna to gain access to housing and WASH loans in fiscal year 2023. Habitat’s Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter and the Asian Development Bank provided technical assistance to Annapurna and other microfinance institutions to increase their capacity to scale affordable loans.

202

families received financial, employment, digital literacy and income-support training through Habitat Findlay/Hancock County’s Financial Opportunity Center in fiscal year 2023. The Ohio affiliate used a barrier-free, people-centered coaching approach to help participants improve their monthly net income by an average of US$615 and boost their credit score by an average of 35 points.

3,500

families have replaced the dirt floors in their homes with concrete across six countries — Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic and Ecuador — with the regional initiative “100,000 floors to play on.” The partnership with Habitat and the Inter-American Cement Federation will install 100,000 concrete floors in Latin America and the Caribbean by 2028, helping families eliminate the health and hygiene risks of dirt floors, especially in households with young children

35

countries are participating in Home Equals, Habitat’s global advocacy campaign. Through the campaign, 38 policy and systems change have been advocated for and successfully enacted in 10 countries.

500

square-foot, energy-efficient Habitat starter homes in Flagstaff, Arizona, are helping low-income residents gain affordable homeownership. Habitat Northern Arizona uses an innovative shared-equity model and land trust protections to keep the homes permanently affordable.

265

municipalities in Bulgaria — every municipality in the country — participated in a housing survey administered and coordinated by Habitat Bulgaria in partnership with the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works to assess the state of the nation's housing stock. In April 2023, Habitat Bulgaria published a report evaluating city housing policies and detailing the availability, condition, occupancy and management of the municipal housing stock.