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Habitat’s Milestone Houses -- Habitat for Humanity Int'l 1
Habitat’s Milestone Houses
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Menaga poses in front of her Habitat house. Her house was the "test build" house for the 200,001st house build.
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Since its founding in 1976, Habitat for Humanity International has built and rehabilitated more than 300,000 houses with families in need, providing shelter for more than 1 million people in over 90 countries.
According to the United Nations, about 1.6 billion people live in substandard housing, and 100 million are homeless.(1) Thanks to volunteers and generous donations, however, a new Habitat house is completed somewhere in the world every 21 minutes, and that puts Habitat closer to its mission of eliminating poverty housing and homelessness.
For additional information, see Much to Celebrate; More to Build: Putting the Milestone Houses in Perspective.
100,000th House
2000—New York City, New York, U.S.
100,001st House
2000—Plains, Georgia, U.S.
150,000th House
2003—Cluj, Romania
200,000th and 200,001st Houses
2005—Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. and Kanyakumari, India
300,000th and 300,001st Houses
2008—Naples, Florida, U.S. and Zacapa, Guatemala
(1) Miloon Kothari , UN Press Briefing by Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, November, 2005. http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2005/kotharibrf050511.doc.htm
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