Habitat for Humanity Sunshine Coast

This video is a great orientation to safety on a construction site. Read more...

Volunteer to help build a house or in some other capacity with your local affililiate. See our volunteer page for ways to get involved on the Sunshine Coast. Make a tax deductible donation to the Sunshine Coast affiliate through Habitat for Humanity Canada. Participate in Habitat fund-raising events. Involve your company or your faith community. Make a planned [...] Read more...

If your family, or a family you know, is in need of decent, affordable housing, we may be able to help. Habitat affiliates are independent, locally run, nonprofit organizations. Each affiliate coordinates all aspects of Habitat home building in its local area, including partner family selection. Your local affiliate can give you information on the availability, [...] Read more...

Through volunteer labour, efficient management and tax-deductible donations of money and materials, Habitat builds and rehabilitates simple, decent houses with the help of the home-owner (partner) families. Habitat houses are sold to partner families at no profit and financed with affordable, no-interest mortgages. The homeowners’ monthly mortgage payments go into a revolving fund, which is [...] Read more...

Habitat houses are sold to families, not given to them free of charge. In addition, families help to build their own home. By building homes at low cost, requiring very little or no down payment, and not charging interest on the mortgage, Habitat for Humanity is able to provide an opportunity, or a “hand up”, to [...] Read more...

Habitat for Humanity is an independent, non-profit, ecumenical housing program dedicated to the elimination of poverty housing by building homes in partnership with families in need. The ministry of Habitat is to provide simple, decent, affordable housing to those who would not qualify or be able to afford a conventional mortgage. The Habitat program is [...] Read more...

There are many ways to volunteer with Habitat for Humanity Sunshine Coast… here’s just a few ideas: Help the recycling team sort refundables in Sechelt or Gibsons on Tuesday or Friday mornings help at the ReStore use your skills to help build a home help in various committee activities such as fundraising, volunteer co-ordination, etc. If you have skills and [...] Read more...

In addition to mortgage payments, each homeowner invests at least 500 hours of their time to assist in the building of their home, or to otherwise assist their affiliate (fund-raising or office work for example). In return, Habitat homeowners are given the unique opportunity to buy a home through an interest-free mortgage, thus gaining substantial [...] Read more...

Acquiring affordable land is one of Habitat for Humanity’s greatest challenges. Habitat seeks the assistance of governments at all levels in acquiring suitable donated or cost-reduced land. Habitat also relies on individual donors for land donations. In many cases affiliates must purchase land. Read more...

Habitat builds homes with volunteer labour and as much donated or cost-reduced material as possible. Fundraising takes place to help offset expenses of materials, services and land when they are not available through donations. Financial support is received from individuals, corporations, service groups and the faith community. Mortgage payments from current homeowners are retained by the [...] Read more...