How To Make Someone Buy Their Own Stuff

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We build strength, stability and self-reliance through shelter.

Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit organization that helps families build and improve places to call home. We believe affordable housing plays a critical role in strong and stable communities.

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Families who partner with us build their own homes alongside volunteers, pay an affordable mortgage and are grateful for your help.

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Photo of a house fully destroyed by Hurricane Ida taken by Leslie Gamboni.

A woman walks by a partially collapsed house in Haiti.

Habitat Haiti is readying response to earthquake

Sitting in a makeshift office off the main road, four days after a massive earthquake hit, Beaumont Mayor Marcel Fortuné tells a Habitat for Humanity Haiti disaster response team that he is still coming to grips with how much the city has lost. And how much work lies ahead in rebuilding.

Moses and his two daughters.

New home helps a family's legacy live on in Hawaii

A U.S. Army National Guard veteran and father of four, Moses had dreamed of and worked toward the day where he and his family could have a home of their own. He almost couldn't believe it when the family services coordinator for Honolulu Habitat for Humanity said, "Welcome to the Habitat family."

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+You thought leadership video series

Habitat's +You thought leadership series brings together experts from around the world during live streaming events as they inform and educate our audiences about significant and pressing issues in housing today.

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Experience the Cost of Home

1 in 7 households in the U.S. pay half or more of their income on a place to live, an issue only heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Through our interactive Cost of Home experience, you can walk through the decisions a household has to make as they work to cover all their other costs. Could you help them make it work?

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Maria holding up a bowl that contains a fire burning her mortgage papers.

Burning bright: Homeowner celebrates her final mortgage payment

In 1996, Maria applied to Black Hills Area Habitat for Humanity's homeownership program in the hopes of providing a safe and stable home for her five children. Now 25 years later, she and her friends celebrated her final mortgage payment, and in Habitat tradition, they burned the mortgage papers she signed all those years ago.

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Building the Beloved Community

Habitat is working to create what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called "the Beloved Community" — we will do the work in our practices, our programs and our networks to put equity and justice at the forefront of our efforts and bring that mission to the communities in which we work.

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Elizabeth and Javier standing outside a blue home.

Restoring homes and hope in Puerto Rico

As part of Habitat for Humanity's ongoing hurricane recovery efforts, generously supported by AbbVie, Habitat works local businesses to help families in Puerto Rico repair homes affected by hurricanes Irma and Maria.

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The power of Women Build

We invite you to meet four homeowners – Nilda, Christina, Ai and Yessica – and longtime volunteer Teri to learn more about the difference that Habitat, Lowe's and homeownership have made in their lives.

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US map with icons for housing affordability successes

U.S. advocacy successes

Habitat quickly expanded our existing advocacy efforts to help the millions of individuals in the U.S. now struggling with housing insecurity as a result of the economic impacts of COVID-19. Use this tracker to stay up to date on innovative ways that Habitat's network is advocating across the nation through our Cost of Home campaign.

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Cathy on the build site of her home in 1995.

Reflecting on 25 years of homeownership, friendship

Homeowner Kathy reflects on what life has brought her after she and her daughters moved into their Habitat home in Boise, Idaho, 25 years ago. "Back then, before Habitat, I figured that homeownership would always be out of reach," she says.

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Should I donate this to the Habitat ReStore?

When cleaning, remodeling or moving, you often run into household items you no longer use, but that are still in great condition. Whether it be items like the windows you just replaced or an old TV, you may wonder, "Should I donate this?"

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Rita, Omar and their daughters.

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How To Make Someone Buy Their Own Stuff

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How To Make Someone Buy Their Own Stuff

We build strength, stability and self-reliance through shelter.

Find your local Habitat

Find your local Habitat

Donate

Donate

Habitat features

Habitat Haiti is readying response to earthquake