We believe that a decent home is a foundation for a better life. Just like food, clothing, education and medical care, housing is a basic human right.
Habitat for Humanity believes everybody deserves a decent place to live. With the help of thousands of volunteers each year, we build new homes, we repair and renovate houses to meet the needs of their occupants and we run social rental properties that make affordability housing accessible.
Worldwide 1.6 billion people live in poor housing conditions. As a result their health is poor, they struggle to pay bills, buy food or afford medical care.
They can’t build up their lives and are stuck in a cycle of poverty. The percentage of people without access to decent housing is rising worldwide, and also in New Zealand.
New Zealand has some of the least affordable housing in the developed world.
As a result of unaffordable housing, overcrowding issues and a poor housing stock 300,000 New Zealand families are living in unacceptable housing conditions.
Assisted Home Ownership
Home ownership changes every aspect of a family’s life. Owning a home is different from renting. With the home purchase comes the pride of ownership, a sense of belonging and most of all stability.
Home Repairs
Habitat’s home repair programme ‘A Brush With Kindness’ (AWBK), helps low income families back on track with their home maintenance.
Disaster Relief
After natural disasters and conflicts, Habitat for Humanity is there to help rebuild communities and prepare for the future. Habitat NZ’s most recent projects are the rebuild in Christchurch and our involvement with Samoan communities to recover from the cyclone and prepare for the future.
International Projects
Habitat helps families in the Pacific region to improve their housing and to up-skill families and local builders. Our most recent project is a new project in Samoa in 2015: The Habitat Build.
Every 24 hours Habitat for Humanity completes 115 homes around the world.
The needs of all these families are diverse, but so are the Habitat for Humanity solutions. We build new homes and we repair others.
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