Our Cause - Habitat for Humanity

Habitat for Humanity

Habitat for Humanity, celebrating 33 years of service, is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry founded in 1976. HFH seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. Habitat has built more than 300,000 houses around the world, providing more than 1,500,000 people in more than 3,000 communities with safe, decent, affordable shelter.

How does it work?

Through volunteer labor and donations of money and materials, Habitat builds and rehabilitates simple, decent houses with the help of the homeowner (partner) families. Habitat houses are sold to partner families at no profit, financed with affordable, no-interest loans. Habitat is not a giveaway program. In addition to a down payment and the monthly mortgage payments, homeowners invest hundreds of hours of their own labor — sweat equity — into building their Habitat house and the houses of others. Habitat houses are affordable for low-income families because there is no profit included in the sale price and no interest charged on the mortgage. Mortgage length varies from seven to 30 years.

Habitat for Humanity SCAA

The Southern California Affiliates Association (SCAA) is a California nonprofit public benefit association that was established in 1995 to partner with the local Southern California Habitat for Humanity affiliates in working with economically disadvantaged people to help them create a better human habitat in which to live and work., The SCAA offers local Habitat for Humanity affiliates a collaborative forum for networking, training and sharing resources to help affiliates build affordable housing. Direct beneficiaries of the 15th Annual Fannie Mae Golf & Tennis Classic include Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles, Orange County, San Gabriel Valley, Pomona Valley, and Santa Clarita/San Fernando Valley.