We build strength, stability, and self-reliance through shelter
Services
What WE Do
Monroe County 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.
Home Construction
Families in need of a decent place to live build safe and affordable homes in partnership with Habitat for Humanity.
Home Preservation
At Habitat, we partner with families, communities and local organizations across the U.S. to help people improve their homes and their quality of life so they can flourish where they live.
neighbors helping neighbors
Families partner with Habitat for Humanity in the U.S. and around the world to build better lives for themselves and their children. Learn more about the types of work we do to build a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
Home Construction
Home Preservation
Home Preservation
We offer home repair services to homeowners so they can continue to live in safe, decent homes for years to come. Some of our home repair work includes painting, landscaping, weatherization and minor repair services to preserve home exteriors and revitalize neighborhoods.
How does Home Preservation work?
Families partner with Habitat based on income, need and willingness to help. We use volunteer labor and donated materials to keep costs low. An affordable loan is made to the homeowner to cover the cost of the work. Payments are placed in a revolving fund to help Home Preservation serve others in need.
Habitat’s home repair program would not be possible without the generosity of Valspar, the co-founder and underwriter of our Home Preservation program.
Home Construction
Habitat homebuyers help build their own homes alongside volunteers and pay an affordable mortgage.
As active participants in building a better future for themselves and their families, qualified Habitat homebuyers are potential homebuyers who:
1. Might be dealing with:
- Poorly made, unhealthy, or inadequate housing
- Unaffordable rent
- Home inaccessibities for their disabilities
- Other significant shelter needs.
2. Are willing to partner with Habitat
Habitat home buyers put in hundreds of hours of “sweat equity” helping build their own home and the homes of others in the program. This might also include classes in personal finance. home maintenance, and other homeownership topics.
3. Are able to pay an affordable mortgage
Habitat offers homebuyers an affordable mortgage, Their mortgage payments cycle back into the community to help build more affordable houses.
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Learn about Monroe County Habitat For Humanity and how you can get involved.