homeowner stories

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Habitat homeownership

The 2020 Homeowner Experience Survey assessed the impact of homeownership for FH Habitat families. A summary of results is included below, and you can read the full report here.

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Feel more financially secure as homeowners
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Say skills acquired during construction help them as homeowners
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Understand and are satisfied with their home’s energy efficient systems
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Report improved quality of life for their children (% of respondents with children)
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Faced some degree of challenges around the costs of homeownership
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Report difficulty with shared driveways (% of respondents with shared driveways)
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Have an overall positive experience with Habitat homeownership

If your home isn’t a sanctuary, where else do you really have to go?

Things don’t come for free, you have to work for them… I want to learn everything related to my home. I want to be able to do things without turning to someone for help.

This is a life-changing experience, I’m excited beyond words. I’m ecstatic to be able to have privacy and sleep in a quiet place and have neighbors and a community to raise kids. This is their future.

Jan, Habitat homeowner