The Importance of Home: Financial Stability

The Importance of Home: Financial Stability

Week Four: Financial Stability This week we take a look at how Habitat provides families with an opportunity to gain financial stability, often times for the very first time in their family’s history. Cycles of poverty can be near impossible to break, unless a...
The Importance of Home: Safety

The Importance of Home: Safety

Week Three: Safety Week three focuses on safety and how a Habitat home can make all the difference in the lives of a family. Imagine living without doors, locks, or privacy. Imagine living in high-density buildings during a pandemic, where nothing is clean or safe....
The Importance of Home: Health

The Importance of Home: Health

Week Two: Health Our focus this week is on health – mental and physical – of families, children, and communities. When families live in clean, sustainable, energy efficient homes they are less likely to suffer from environmental illnesses like asthma and...
The Importance of Home: Child Development

The Importance of Home: Child Development

Week One: Child Development This week we focus on child development and how Habitat for Humanity influences healthier, stronger children in our communities. “Habitat works to eliminate children’s experiences of substandard housing, thereby supporting their...
Habitat for Humanity Halloween House: A Spooktacular Display

Habitat for Humanity Halloween House: A Spooktacular Display

Habitat for Humanity of Eastern Connecticut’s main office is all decked out for some serious neighborhood fun. Located at 377 Broad Street in New London, the traditional colonial on the hill has been transformed into a spooky haunt that has all the local ghosts and...
The Importance of Home: A Year-End Giving Campaign

The Importance of Home: A Year-End Giving Campaign

Families in need of affordable housing live everywhere: small towns and villages, sprawling cities, your community. Housing need presents itself wherever people live and work, and it takes many forms and has far-reaching effects. While the vast majority of Americans...
Act Now

Act Now

Even before the coronavirus pandemic, more than 18 million U.S. households were paying half or more of their income on a place to live. Now, as the significant economic impacts of COVID-19 continue to unfold, the number of families struggling to make ends meet is only...
Today is National Voter Registration Day

Today is National Voter Registration Day

Are you registered to vote? On September 22, 2020, Americans will celebrate National Voter Registration Day with a massive cross-country effort to register voters well in advance of Election Day on November 3rd. In Connecticut you have the option of requesting an...
Habitat’s Commitment to Anti-racism

Habitat’s Commitment to Anti-racism

Habitat for Humanity is more than a nonprofit housing ministry. We have a vision of a world where we share one humanity, and that’s a world that we believe in and fight for every day.  We are a faith-based organization, but we realize that faith alone is not enough....
Habitat for Humanity, COVID-19 and a Housing Crisis

Habitat for Humanity, COVID-19 and a Housing Crisis

Now more than ever, Habitat for Humanity’s work is critical. For many families, those who were already struggling with a need for decent and affordable housing, their daily lives have only become more challenging. For others, those who find themselves affected by the...