Collegiate Challenge Bonanza at the Beach
College students teamed up with a South Carolina Habitat affiliate for Bonanza at the Beach, a Collegiate Challenge build that proved to be a powerful and productive event for all involved.
College students teamed up with a South Carolina Habitat affiliate for Bonanza at the Beach, a Collegiate Challenge build that proved to be a powerful and productive event for all involved.
We offer alternative school break volunteer opportunities to college students throughout the United States.
While Habitat for Humanity welcomes the mention of “the transformative power of cities worldwide as drivers for sustainable development,” the G7 Leaders’ Summit communique overlooks the pervasive global housing crisis and rapid urbanization driving the expansion of informal settlements.
Thanks to our corporate and foundation partners for building alongside Habitat around the world. We are grateful for their unwavering support.
As communities across the U.S. have faced shortages of safe, decent housing, we have focused on various strategies for increasing the supply and preservation of affordable homes where residents are able to live and raise families.
Since credit can be difficult, if not impossible, for many households to access, we have focused on strategies for equitably increasing access to credit for underserved populations.
Because zoning restrictions and high land prices can make it prohibitively difficult to build or preserve affordable homes in opportunity-connected communities, we have focused on advocating for policies related to land acquisition, use and development.
Everyone deserves to live in a stronger and healthier community — and to contribute to how that community is shaped over time, which is why we have focused on advocating for policies that protect and strengthen neighborhoods and enable communities to thrive.
Habitat’s capacity building program in Puerto Rico, funded by AbbVie, helped support the development of a solar-powered energy hub that provides a safe place where families can shelter during weather-related emergencies.
When you co-fund a project, you help transform lives. By building housing, we build beyond the physical homes: adequate living conditions have a powerful impact on the livelihoods, health, education and more of households and communities.