Yulisa and Guillermo yearn for a home where their son, Cesar, will have the freedom to play and grow. Now the couple is building an affordable Habitat home with the help of Wells Fargo volunteers and the Wells Fargo Foundation.
Diversity, equity and inclusion is central and imperative for Habitat for Humanity. We believe in a world where everyone — no matter who we are or where we come from — deserves a decent place to live.
Habitat for Humanity’s vision is a world where everyone has a decent place to live, but a structure of intentional and systemic racial discrimination in the U.S. has created barriers to homeownership for many Black families.
Habitat for Humanity International CEO Jonathan Reckford discusses how the public health emergency caused by COVID-19 has also become a housing emergency. For far too many families, the message of “shelter in place” isn’t as straightforward as it sounds.
For low-income households and households of color in the U.S., homeownership can be a catalyst to wealth building. In this evidence brief, Habitat takes a look at how these gains from homeownership vary by income, gender and race/ethnicity.