About Us
Habitat for Humanity Winter Park/Maitland affiliate is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry. Our mission seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from our community and the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
Team Habitat!
Habitat invites people of all backgrounds, races and religions to build houses together in partnership with families in need. Through volunteer labor and donations of money and building 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 and financed with affordable loans. The homeowners' monthly mortgage payments are used to build still more Habitat houses. 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.
