Habitat for Humanity NYC

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Fair and equitable housing policy calls for all community districts, and all neighborhoods, to participate in alleviating the affordability crisis.

Want to support Habitat NYC's work, but volunteering not your thing? No problem! There's all kinds of ways to raise funds for hard-working families!

More than 50,000 New York State homeowners are behind on their mortgage payments, and more than half of those homeowners are people of color.

If a small homeowner loses the rent, eventually the homeowner as well as the renter loses the home, and there are two families that are displaced: the homeowner and the renter. - Yangchen Chadotsang, Chhaya Community Development Corporation

This pandemic has only widened existing racial disparities in wealth-building, opportunity, employment, housing, health outcomes and more. We have to address these in the nation's recovery. They will not go away on their own.

What do a community center, a playground and a LIRR underpass have in common? They've all been given A Brush with Kindness! We're looking for even more community spaces to refresh this year! Learn more and apply: https://habitatnyc.org/volunteer/a-brush-with-kindness/

I feel like if COVID doesn’t kill me, the stress will.

This is now the time, if COVID showed us anything, that housing is essential, and we really need to have a bold agenda for housing equality, said Katrell Lewis, director of advocacy for Habitat for Humanity New York City. From Marketplace Business News

We talk about preserving the affordable housing that already exists in New York, but what do we mean by that? Well, it can be a lot of things! We paint lobbies and hallways, saving homeowners money. We work with co-op Boards so that they run effectively. We even ethically loan money to buildings so that they can get out of debt, make repairs and more. Learn about our Housing Preservation Program:

Habitat NYC homes may be made of bricks and wood, but we believe that everyone who works on them builds a little bit of their own hearts in the walls.