Door County Habitat for Humanity, Ltd
410 N 14th Avenue
Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235
920-743-2869

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Owning a Habitat Home

We can help you build your own home.


  • if you meet the income limits
  • if your current home is overpriced, overcrowded or in disrepair
  • if you are willing to help us build your new home
  • if you are able to make monthly mortgage and escrow payments

    You may be able to experience this same joy of home ownership too! Haven't you waited long enough? We want to give you a hand up to own a simple, decent, affordable home.
     
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    Program income limits
    (60% of median family income)
    Family Size Maximum Income
    1 $26,100
    2 $29,800
    3 $33,500
    4 $37,200
    5 $40,200
    6 $43,200
    7 $46,200
    8 $49,200



     

    Sweat Equity



    One of the core concepts behind Habitat for Humanity is to offer a partner family a hand up---not a hand out. In the ministry of Habitat for Humanity, the only thing given away is an opportunity. Prospective homeowners are selected based on need, the ability to pay a mortgage, and a willingness to put in several hundred hours of labor on their own house.

    “Sweat equity” is Habitat’s name for the labor that future homeowners invest in the building of their own home. Work is honorable. It allows Habitat families to realize they are partners in the process that is making it possible for them to own a home on terms they can afford (with a no-profit, no-interest mortgage). Their dignity is intact because they are not the recipients of “charity.”

    Sweat equity is Habitat’s best predictor of a partner family’s future success in the program. Families who quickly complete their sweat equity often maintain good payment records and well-kept houses. Time spent doing sweat equity instills in the homeowner a sense of pride and ownership, teaching the basic building and house-maintenance skills that are necessary for homeownership. A Habitat homeowner, by being on site with a diversity of new friends and neighbors, has the chance to connect with the community in powerful ways. As they work beside volunteers who help build their house, they gain dignity, self-worth and a sense of community. Sweat equity’s ultimate goal is to have Habitat family members feel that Habitat volunteers built this house with them, not for them. Each adult in a partner family is required to work at least 200 hours of sweat equity.

    "This home is more than a house.
    It is a home with love,
    built with love and hope and dreams,
    because of Habitat for Humanity.
    You've given our family hope - no matter how
    bad things get or have been in the past.
    God has blessed our family with the caring,
    supportive, concerned, kind people at
    Habitat."

     - a Habitat for Humanity partner family

     

    For more information call 920-743-2869 or visit our office 410 N 14th Avenue, Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

     

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