Putting Habitat’s milestone houses in perspective

Much to celebrate

• Habitat for Humanity built 100,000 houses with people in need of decent, affordable shelter in its first 24 years. In only eight years since then, another 200,000 houses were built.
• Today, Habitat’s efforts result in a family somewhere in the world receiving the key to their new Habitat home every 21 minutes.
• More than one million people now are living in Habitat homes.
• Still, the needs are great.

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.
• Millions upon millions of people still live without adequate shelter.
• The numbers tell us we need to do more—much more.

Worldwide…

• Approximately 100 million people are homeless.
• More than 1 billion people live in shelters built out of flimsy materials, with irregular or no electricity and without adequate sanitation or 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 extending a helping hand to those families still desperately in need of a simple, decent, affordable place to call home.
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