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Can We Help You? How to apply to become a Habitat partner family

Selection Criteria
A Family selection Committee composed of volunteers reviews applications, evaluates them on the basis of the requirements, and makes recommendations to the Board of Directors. The Board makes the final family selections.

Application Process
Habitat is an Equal Opportunity organization, and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, national origin or familial status. Follow these 5 steps to apply for a Habitat home:

  1. Attend one of the meetings held each February. Volunteers will be available to help complete the application at the meeting. It is ESSENTIAL to bring copies of documents to verify your income for the last three years. This might include tax returns; W2's; documents verifying disability, AFDC, WIC or Food Stamps or verification of child support. Please see below for all requirements of application.
  2. After your application is completed, it will be evaluated with all other applications received. This evaluation takes about 2 months. Applicants who meet the initial requirements will have a home visit by members of the Family Selection Committee. This process also takes about 2 months.
  3. Based on the evaluation, the Family Selection Committee recommends applicants to the Board of Directors, which is responsible for the final approval.
  4. Families selected then start work on their mandatory 350 sweat equity hours. Before construction begins on an individual family's home, they must have completed at least 100 hours of the sweat equity and paid $250, half the down payment.
  5. Families not initially accepted may reapply during future application periods should their circumstances change. All information included in the application is considered confidential and will be used only for family selection.
Please call us if you have any questions, or submit your contact information online at Join Us.

In order to complete an application, the following information is needed: