Essex County Habitat for Humanity

Because of the urgent need for advocacy around affordable housing, Essex County Habitat for Humanity is joining Habitat organizations across the country to launch a new national advocacy campaign aimed at improving home affordability for 10 million people in the U.S. over the next five years.

Marking significant growth in Habitat’s commitment to ensuring that everyone has a safe and decent place to call home, we will seek to identify and improve policies and systems through coordinated advocacy efforts at the local and state levels.

Since our founding in 1985, we have built 93 homes and rehabbed 11. We are currently building a total of 13 new affordable homes - 7 in Salisbury, MA and 4 in Andover, MA, and 2 in Wenham, MA, which, although a drop in the bucket of what is required, will help us on our way to build the next 100 homes in record-breaking time!

We offer a wide range of local volunteering opportunities for all ages to help us deliver on our mission of building homes, building hope. We rely on our volunteers to help us operate our ReStore, a retail outlet that accepts donated goods and sells them to the public at heavily discounted prices, helping fund the building of our homes, and to help us build homes, giving a hand up to qualified, hard-working families in the Merrimack Valley.

We have a passionate community, board of directors and staff who want to see more affordable housing!

Our ReStore, which helps fund a lot of our work, is doing well and growing and on the way to becoming a Million dollar a year store!

Since our founding in 1985, we have built 93 homes and rehabbed 11. We are currently building a total of 13 new affordable homes - 7 in Salisbury, MA and 6 in Andover, MA, which, although a drop in the bucket of what is required, will help us on our way to build the next 100 homes in record-breaking time!