 Founded in 1989 by a group of people who were interested in reducing substandard housing Lenawee County, our affiliate has since built 34 homes in this county. The Lenawee County HFH 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 themselves invest hundreds of hours of labor - "sweat equity" - into building their homes and the homes of others. Their mortgage payments go into a revolving Fund for Humanity that is used to build more houses.
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FAST FACTS
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- Habitat for Humanity raised the walls on its 200,000th house on August 6, 2005 in Knoxville, Tennessee
- It took 24 years to build the first 100,000 homes; it has taken only 5 years to build the second 100,000
- HFHLC is only 1 of 85 affiliates in Michigan
- There are over 2100 active affiliates in 100 countries including the U.S.
- Habitat has built over 175,000 houses around the world providing over 750,000 people in more than 3,000 communities with affordable living
- On the average, HFHLC builds two homes each year; we just completed house #34 in May!
- HFHLC completed and dedicated a record 4 homes in 2005!
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