A Force for Good in Vermont

 

Providing Affordable Home Ownership for Vermonters for over 20 years

Habitat for Humanity gives a hand up to families willing to help build their own simple, decent homes. 
Leveraging community volunteers to build, and providing zero interest zero profit mortgages lets Habitat homeowners enjoy the most affordable ownership homes in the state.

Building Affordable Homes

Currently, 12 locally based Habitat for Humanity Affiliates operate in Vermont.  Those affiliates have built more than 100 affordable houses, home to more than 400 family members.

Engaging our local Communities

While operating under the sanction and guidance of Habitat for Humanity International®, each affiliate is governed by a Board of Directors of volunteers from their local communities.

In a typical year:

• Over 100 community leaders will serve on Affiliate’s Boards of Directors.
• Over 2,500 Vermont residents will volunteer their time to work on building a Habitat home.
• An additional 300 people will volunteer to do other functions of Habitat, such as Family Selection, Family Support, or communications.
• Our newsletters are sent to over 20,000 addresses, reaching more than 75,000 people.
• We will begin construction of 5 – 10 new homes for deserving families.
• Our homeowners will pay over ¼ million dollars in property taxes.

Participating in the Worldwide Community

Aided by Habitat International, Vermont affiliates, through voluntary tithing, have teamed with affiliates of other countries to so far financially support the building of more than 80 additional homes worldwide, ranging from Bolivia to Indonesia to Jordan.