1300 Rollingbrook Drive, Suite 530 Baytown, Texas 77521
Tel: 281-427-0866
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About Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit, ecumenical, Christian ministry, which builds simple, decent, and affordable homes in partnership with those in need. Families purchase the houses at no profit, through interest-free loans.
Since its founding in 1976 by Millard and Linda Fuller, Habitat for Humanity International has built more than 400,000 houses with families in need, becoming a true world leader in addressing the issues of poverty housing.
The driving force behind the organization is its volunteers – those who contribute a day, a week, or a few months, to give Habitat’s vision a tangible form. Volunteers, joining with the future homeowner families, provide virtually all of the house-building labor.
Individuals, religious organizations, corporations, and local civic groups that support Habitat’s mission, also provide the tax-deductible donations of money and materials that make the work possible.
Habitat does not build houses for families; rather, it builds alongside those who demonstrate need and willingness to partner with Habitat. Homeowner families invest hundreds of hours of their own “sweat equity” labor into the houses. Their monthly mortgage payments go into a revolving Fund for Humanity to help fund the construction of more houses. Through this approach, Habitat gives partner families a hand up, restoring the hope and dignity that poverty can strip away.
Habitat worksites are places to build relationships as well as houses. Modeled on biblical principles, Habitat’s self-help solution to the blight of substandard housing is popular with people from many political, professional, ethnic, and religious backgrounds. This is the essence of Habitat’s “theology of the hammer,” which invites diverse individuals to find common ground in using a hammer and sharing a goal.
1300 Rollingbrook Drive, Suite 530, Baytown, Texas 77521
Tel: 281-427-0866 | E-mail: info@baytownhabitat.org