How housing affects child development
Growing up in a decent, affordable home can have a powerful effect on children. Studies draw a straight line between the quality, location and affordability of housing and a child’s ability to thrive.
Growing up in a decent, affordable home can have a powerful effect on children. Studies draw a straight line between the quality, location and affordability of housing and a child’s ability to thrive.
Habitat for Humanity convened a dialogue to learn from local and state action to inform federal policy solutions for home affordability. Watch a recording of the event.
For a cheery home project, this DIY expert repurposed a kitchen cabinet she found at her local Habitat for Humanity ReStore into wall art of a Triple Star hex sign from the Pennsylvania Dutch tradition.
Habitat for Humanity is now accepting cryptocurrency donations including Bitcoin, Etherium and more in our efforts to ensure that everyone has access to safe, decent shelter.
From around the world, children share what their Habitat for Humanity homes mean to them through hand-drawn illustrations of celebrating their favorite holidays.
Each year since 2007, the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree on display in New York City is milled and donated to Habitat for Humanity to use in construction projects. Lumber from the 2022 tree was used to build a deck and planter boxes at Sarah’s Habitat home in Corinth, New York.
For more than three decades, Rosalynn Carter and her husband President Jimmy Carter donated their time and voices to help Habitat build with more families around the world.
Find out the total amount of homes built across the U.S. as part of Habitat’s Home Builders Blitz, the number of families served by Habitat Nepal since its 1997 beginning and more.
Habitat volunteers see firsthand the transformations that occur when individuals and neighborhoods find an avenue that positions them to be a part of their own solution.
Habitat volunteer Uday Rosario from Qatar recounts his first Global Village trip to Jordan.