Financial education
As a part of the homeownership process, we believe financial education builds a more solid foundation for long-term personal success and helps alleviate any concerns or barriers on the path to homeownership.
As a part of the homeownership process, we believe financial education builds a more solid foundation for long-term personal success and helps alleviate any concerns or barriers on the path to homeownership.
Habitat for Humanity International co-signed this statement as part of a coalition of other national nonprofit organizations. Faced with this moment of national urgency and entrusted by communities to lead in crisis, we affirm and commit to utilizing these principles and values as a guide in our individual and collective efforts to advance equity and justice.
Habitat for Humanity International CEO, UN-Habitat executive director and Costa Rican president will headline virtual version of region’s leading housing forum May 17-21.
Each donation given by UL employees through our internal giving site will be matched dollar-for-dollar by Underwriters Laboratories.
Learn more about why we work with housing market systems, our leadership team and the impact our work has on the communities we work alongside.
Learn about Habitat’s homeownership process and family selection qualifications. Habitat does not give away houses; instead, future homeowners partner with local affiliates and volunteers to build or rehabilitate a home and pay an affordable mortgage.
Proceeds from our nonprofit home improvement stores and donation centers, otherwise known as ReStores, help fund Habitat for Humanity’s worthy cause.
“Taking a shower and having proper handrails in the tub. The handrail in the hallway for helping us steady ourselves,” Bryant says. “They’re little things, but they’re game-changers when you get older.”
Too many among the general public aren’t aware that the egregious racial disparities in America that exist today — in education, employment, health and wealth — are linked to Black families’ exclusion from accessing decent and affordable shelter – something we all need to thrive.