Building a better world through advocacy
With the support of allies like Whirlpool Corporation, Habitat’s U.S. advocacy campaign has helped to influence policy and reshape systems to increase access to affordable housing.
With the support of allies like Whirlpool Corporation, Habitat’s U.S. advocacy campaign has helped to influence policy and reshape systems to increase access to affordable housing.
Habitat for Humanity is all about people. People in hard hats, people who live in affordable houses, people who spend their hours and days working together because they share a vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
In Canaan, an informal settlement in Haiti of families displaced by the deadly 2010 earthquake, Habitat installed 200 energy-efficient streetlamps in capital-area neighborhoods and now is working to create a pool of qualified residents in each neighborhood to maintain them.
Kevin and his siblings are growing up in the Habitat house that gave their parents a place to make a new life.
Learn how Habitat uses microfinance and other financial innovations to help more people access housing solutions.
In this essay, Habitat’s vice president of government relations and advocacy reflects on the progress made in the first year of our U.S. housing affordability advocacy campaign, Cost of Home, and where we must focus our efforts in the future in the face of impacts from COVID-19, issues of systemic racism and upcoming elections.
Watch college students volunteering with Habitat for Humanity Collier County help Florida families begin cleaning up following Hurricane Irma.
Join us in honoring Rosalynn Carter by sharing how you’ve been inspired by her life and service and reading others’ stories.
With your help, Habitat for Humanity homeowners are able to overcome the barriers that so often exist between their families and better, healthier and more financially stable lives.
Join Habitat staff members, board members, homeowners, volunteers and youth from across the country for Habitat for Humanity’s annual legislative conference in Washington, D.C.