What is sweat equity?
At Habitat, sweat equity is a new homeowner investing in their home or one for another family. It’s not a form of payment, but an opportunity to work alongside volunteers to bring to life a family’s dream of owning a home.
At Habitat, sweat equity is a new homeowner investing in their home or one for another family. It’s not a form of payment, but an opportunity to work alongside volunteers to bring to life a family’s dream of owning a home.
Learn how Habitat uses microfinance and other financial innovations to help more people access housing solutions.
Learn how poverty is defined, why affordable housing can be difficult to find, how housing relates to health and more.
Let Habitat and Thrivent Worldwide take you on a journey of truly living generously.
Habitat’s Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter is delighted to invite you to a webinar on “The Business Case for Housing Microfinance in Africa” on Thursday, April 5, 2018 from 4-5:30 p.m. East Africa Time.
Nothing is more important for Habitat for Humanity than the welfare of the people we work with every day. These resources and policies help ensure the safety of our volunteers, our employees and those in the communities where we work.
As sub-Saharan Africa braces for continued rapid urbanization, Habitat’s ShelterTech platform uses an accelerator model to fast-track innovative housing solutions by advancing local startups through a six-month program to scale their business models and get them investor ready.
View our policy solutions to help remedy years of discriminatory housing policies and join us in helping to ensure all families have a stable, affordable place to call home.
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.
Through our Aging in Place program, Habitat aims to help older adults make the upgrades and repairs necessary to ensure their homes are accessible and safe to continue living in as they age. These stories exemplify our work to provide these accessible accommodations across the U.S.