Much to Celebrate; More to Build:
Putting the Milestone Houses in Perspective

• Habitat for Humanity built 100,000 houses with people in need of decent, affordable shelter in its first 24 years; 200,000 more houses have been built in the eight years since then. Still, the needs are great.
• While more than one million people now are living in Habitat homes; that is much to celebrate. Millions upon millions of people, though, still live without adequate shelter, and that leaves more to build.
• Habitat for Humanity and its partners are committed to a world where every man, woman and child has a safe and healthy place to live. Today, Habitat’s efforts—made possible by donations from individuals, churches, corporate partners, foundations and other supporters—result in a family somewhere in the world receiving the key to its new Habitat home every 21 minutes.
• The numbers tell us we need to do more—much more. Consider that:

Worldwide…

• Approximately 100 million people are homeless.
• More than 1 billion people live in inadequate shelter—built out of flimsy materials, without adequate sanitation, with irregular or no electricity and without adequate security.

In the United States…

• More than 33 million people live in poverty. This number reflects a family of four living on $17,850 per year or less.
• Some 95 million Americans face housing problems, approximately one-third of the total U.S. population.
• Of that 95 million, one-third spends more than 30 percent of their income on housing.
• Some 5.1 million American families have "worst-case" housing needs, forced to pay more than half their income for housing, endure overcrowded conditions and/or live in houses with severe physical deficiencies.
• While the number of families in poverty is growing, the number of affordable rental units is shrinking.
  

Celebrate the milestone houses with us by helping us extend a helping hand to those families still desperately in need of a simple, decent, affordable place to call home. You can donate securely online right now.