Habitat for Humanity International

Habitat for Humanity partners with people in communities all over the world to help them build or improve a place they can call home. With our help, Habitat homeowners can achieve the strength, stability and independence they need to build a better life for them-selves and their families. Guided by our principles of demonstrating the love of Jesus Christ, focusing on shelter, advocating for affordable shelter, promoting dignity and hope, and supporting sustainable development, we can create a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

Our 2020 Strategic Plan provides a new way of how we approach our mission, vision and principles. This plan challenges us to become more effective catalysts for systemic change—change that will help exponentially more families than any one organization ever could serve alone. Our 2020 Strategic Plan calls for operating within three interconnected spheres of influence: community, sector and society. Each of these “houses” sit on Habitat’s strong foundation of mission-driven, purposeful work. As our organization strives to deepen its impact, this strategic plan has been invaluable in Habitat’s success. Through our 2020 Strategic Plan, Habitat for Humanity will serve more people than ever before through decent and affordable housing.

Driven by the vision that everyone needs a decent place to live, Habitat has partnered with families for more than 40 years to build and improve places they can call home.

Our work focuses on increasing access to homeownership and housing finance, improving housing affordability and quality, helping communities prepare for and respond to natural disasters, and building strong and resilient neighborhoods.

Our work today includes:

New construction where our houses and work processes are designed for their specific local settings and use locally available materials.

Improvement and repair of existing houses. In the U.S., this work is done as part of our neighborhood revitalization efforts. Outside the U.S., we help families build incrementally and help create access to housing microfinance loans.

Advocacy, which advances access to adequate and affordable housing globally through changing policy and systems.

Habitat has helped more than 46 million people obtain a safer place to sleep at night, along with the strength, stability and independence to build better lives.

In fiscal year 2022, Habitat improved housing conditions of more than 7 million people around the world.

This includes more than 33,000 people in the U.S. and Canada, more than 1.7 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean, more than 3.3 million people in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and more than 1.9 million people in Asia and the Pacific region.

Through advocacy and training, Habitat helped an additional 5 million people gain the potential to improve their housing conditions in fiscal year 2022.

Habitat’s global mission is made possible thanks to its many generous donors and the hands and hearts of thousands of volunteers who annually give their time and talent.