Habitat For Humanity of Northwest Connecticut is a locally run affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing organization. Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with people in need to build and renovate decent, affordable housing. The houses then are sold to those in need at no profit and with no interest charged.

Volunteers provide most of the labor, and individual and corporate donors provide money and materials to build Habitat houses. Partner families are required to work 400 hundred hours - "sweat equity"- in building their homes and the homes of others. Their mortgage payments go into a revolving fund that is used to help build more houses.

History

Our local affiliate was founded in 1990.

The goal of the Habitat for Humanity of Northwest Connecticut, Inc. is to build or rehabilitate homes in the towns of Canaan, Cornwall, Falls Village, Norfolk, Salisbury, and Sharon. The affiliate also provides repairs which help homeowners stay safely in existing homes.

Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry. Habitat works in partnership with people in need to build and renovate decent, affordable housing. The houses then are sold to those in need, Habitat’s partner families, at no profit and with no interest charged. Partner families are required to invest 400 hundred hours of their own labor — sweat equity — into building their homes and the homes of others. Their mortgage payments go toward funding more houses.

Founded in 1976 by Millard Fuller along with his wife Linda, and headquartered in Atlanta, GA, HFHI’s work in the United States is accomplished by affiliates. Habitat affiliates are independent, nonprofit [501(c) (3)] organizations that are organized by local citizens and operate with local boards and local volunteers. There are numerous U.S. affiliates spread among all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers provide most of the labor, and faithful individual and corporate donors provide the money and materials to build Habitat houses.

Habitat’s mission is to eliminate poverty housing from the earth. Habitat has taken its vision of a world with no more shacks to 90 countries (including the U.S). To date, HFHI has completed more than 300,000 simple, decent, affordable houses around the globe.

Habitat for Humanity’s Mission Statement

Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with God and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with people in need by building and renovating houses, so that there are decent houses in decent communities in which every person can experience God’s love and can live and grow into all that God intends.