our impact
By working with local communities to meet their housing needs, we also help them solve many other problems. With a stable home and fixed address, residents have access to better health care, education, employment opportunities and community services.
The impacts of Habitat’s affordable homeownership program are broad, deep and long-lasting. Habitat homeowners gain more than an affordable home: they drive social and financial gains that strengthen their lives, put their children on a path to success, build inclusive communities, and bolster Canada’s economy. The program is an effective response to Canada’s housing and productivity crises and an important contributor to a healthy housing system. The benefits continue across generations.
We have now been in the same home for 10 years, which has been the longest I have lived anywhere in my life. I am no longer afraid of being evicted, and knowing we are safe and secure in our home is the greatest feeling of all. Without Habitat I would never have had the opportunity to become a homeowner. My eternal gratitude to this amazing organization for helping people such as myself [with] a hand up, not a hand out, to become a homeowner, and to give my kids a safe home to grow up in.
~ Anonymous Habitat homeowner
meet our families
Together, we build a better future. With your help, our families are able to build better lives for themselves and their children.
After moving into their Habitat home, families see improvements in:
Habitat for Humanity Canada commissioned Deloitte to quantitively measure the social and economic impact of our affordable homeownership program in Canada. Read more from the study about the social an economic impacts of Habitat for Humanity’s Homeownership Program here.