Your support is crucial to allowing us to build quality, affordable homes in New York City.

Make an individual donation or encourage your employer, faith, or community organization to help—all are vital sources of support we need to fulfill our mission of building homes and transforming lives.

Help build a house in New York City and help a family in need! Here’s what your dollars buy:

$35 buys hammers for volunteers$50 buys nails for one home$100 buys a front door for one home$250 buys a bedroom window$500 buys doors for one home$1,200 buys Sheetrock for one home$5,000 buys Sheetrock/paint for three homes

Donating online through our secure server is quick and easy. Just go to www.habitatnyc.org/donate.

For more information about matching gifts, celebration gifts, planned giving, or donating a vehicle, visit our website or call (212) 991-4000, ext. 306

How You Can Help

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“Homeowners fare better than renters on most measures, including physical and mental health, more positive activities and more time spent with children.”

—Center for Housing Policy

Habitat-NYC is a leader in New York City and nationally in building affordable green homes for low-income New York City families in need. We are committed to following the highest green building practices, which saves our homeowners money, helps promote their health, improves our communities and helps our planet.

Why Build Green?

Healthy green building is especially crucial for low-income children in New York City, who suffer from very high rates of asthma and other pollution-induced illnesses.

In many of the neighborhoods where Habitat-NYC builds homes—the South Bronx, Central Harlem and Central Brooklyn—one in every three children has asthma.

Building Green:Goes to the core of our mission to provide quality affordable housing;Increases the indoor air quality for our families, which promotes health and reduces respiratory conditions;Helps reduces high energy costs for our families by 30% or more—and that helps keep our homes affordable.

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All 41 homes in our Atlantic Avenue Condominiums in Ocean Hill-Brownsville, Brooklyn, were built to meet LEED standards.

Building Homes, Building Community

Why rent when you can own an affordable, GREEN Habitat-NYC home?

We build attractive, quality homes that hardworking, low-income New Yorkers can afford.

Build pride and a sense of community while keeping your hard-earned dollars in your pocket.

Our program is unique. Our homeowner families:• Help build their homes with professionals and volunteers;• Get free classes in financial literacy, building maintenance and more.• Receive an affordable 2%, 30-year fixed mortgage;• Contribute a cash down-payment of just 1% (compare to the standard 20%);• Enjoy property-tax abatements;• Live in a healthy, green, well-built, energy-efficient home.

Here’s How You Can Qualify:• Must earn between 50% - 80% of the city’s area median income;*• Have good credit (a FICO score of 620 or higher);• Be willing to contribute “sweat equity” to help build your home;• Must be a first-time homeowner.

Learn more—or download an application—at www.habitatnyc.org/own.

*Check website for details

Become a Habitat-NYC Homeowner

For a quarter of a century, Habitat for Humanity - New York City has been transforming lives and the city itself—one of the most diverse places on Earth—by uniting all New Yorkers around the cause of decent, affordable housing.

Founded in 1984 as an independent affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, Habitat-NYC works in all five boroughs of New York City, building quality homes for ownership by hardworking families and individuals in need.

We build the homes with the “sweat equity” of our family partner homeowners, who work side-by-side with volunteers. Each year, thousands of New Yorkers from corporations, faith institutions, schools and civic groups come to build with us and learn more about how to help solve New York’s affordable housing crisis

A safe, secure home can make an immense differ-ence to a struggling family. Compared with renters of the same age, income and race, homeowners in the United States are:

• 12 times wealthier;• 15% more likely to vote;• 16% more likely to belong to school or community organizations;• 28% more likely to repair or improve their homes.

Children of homeowners are:

• 25% more likely to graduate from high school;• 116% more likely to graduate from college;• 59% more likely to own their own home within 10 years of leaving their parents’ household;• 20% less likely to become teenage mothers.

What a Decent Home Can Mean to a Family

In addition to building homes, Habitat-NYC is a leading advocate for affordable housing. Our goal is to ensure that every New Yorker has a decent, affordable home, by creating a social movement to end the housing crisis plaguing New York City and by calling on elected officials to make affordable housing a priority.

Additionally, our Loan Rangers campaign seeks to educate low-income New Yorkers about predatory lending practices and helps them to make wise financial decisions.

Get informed and get involved. Learn more by going to: www.habitatnyc.org/advocate

A Voice for Decent,Affordable Housing