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Baytown, Texas 77521
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Do you want to buy a simple, decent, affordable home? Baytown Habitat now accepts applications year-round.
Before applying for a Habitat home please review the criteria below. You must meet all the Family Selection Criteria to qualify. Home owners must be permanent legal residents and must live or work in Baytown for a minimum of one year.
Need for adequate housing.
You may qualify if you are:
• Currently living in housing which is overcrowded or in bad condition.
• Currently paying more than 50% of income for housing and utilities.
• Currently living in a neighborhood that is unsafe or unsuitable for your family.
• Currently unable to secure decent housing through other means, like a conventional market loan.
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Ability to Pay
You may qualify if you have:
• Stable income.
• Demonstrated an ability to make regular monthly payments for rent, utilities and other credit obligations.
• Must have been at current place of employment for at least one year.
Willingness to Partner
You may qualify if you are willing to:
• Provide Baytown Habitat with a 1% down payment.
• Fulfill a minimum of 500 “sweat equity” hours.
• Disclose financial and personal information, including employment references, proof of income, payment stubs and records, etc.
• Follow through on Habitat program application requirements, including home visit and interview.
• Attend all family workshop classes.
• Promptly make monthly house payments.
• Maintain and repair the house after occupancy.
Sweat equity is a great learning experience in which you work with your family, friends, neighbors, church, and volunteers to build other Habitat homes as well as your own. Working alongside other homeowners and volunteers to build your home is one of the most rewarding aspects of Habitat for Humanity. Sweat equity hours can be contributed by all family members over the age of 16. In addition, up to 100 hours can be donated by friends, extended family, and other volunteers.
Habitat homes are sold at material cost with 0% interest. Habitat homeowners pay for their homes over a period of 20 years.
All information obtained during the Habitat for Humanity family selection process is confidential and will be used only for the purposes of determining eligibility for our program. Families who are not approved during one application period may reapply later should their circumstances change.
The selection of families who purchase Habitat homes is considered by the Family Selection Committee, using criteria that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, age, handicap, religion, marital status, or because all or part of the applicant’s income is derived from public assistance programs.
