HABITAT FOR HUMANITY of Evansville
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Mission Statement
The lack of decent and affordable housing in our area creates tremendous instability in our neighbor-hoods, weakens our economy, and impacts our health and educational success.
About This Cause
Our Vision A world where everyone has a decent place to live. Our Mission Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope. Our Core Values 1. Demonstrate the love of Jesus Christ. 2. Focus on shelter. 3. Advocate for affordable housing. 4. Promote dignity and hope. 5. Support sustainable and transformational development. How We Work Our Motivation: Putting God’s love into action Motivated by the belief that each of us is called to “act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with our God,” Habitat for Humanity seeks to be a partner and catalyst in building communities where everyone has the opportunity to thrive. Our Method: Bringing people together Habitat for Humanity believes that no one lives in dignity until everyone can live in dignity. When the broad community is engaged in addressing the urgent need for adequate, affordable shelter, we all become less vulnerable and more resilient. In bringing people together, Habitat practices a philosophy of “a hand up, not a handout,” and builds on existing community assets: financial, physical, natural, human, social and spiritual. Our Impact: Homes, communities and hope In seeking truly transformed communities, Habitat views bringing people together not only as a way to deliver a product — improved housing — but as an essential process for building hope and belief that healthier communities are achievable and beneficial for all. When we work together, statistics become faces with names, stereotypes are broken and everyone has the opportunity to both give and receive. Only then is lasting change likely to occur. Habitat for Humanity of Evansville recently marked 30 years of service to the community and celebrated 438 families fulfilling their dream of homeownership. Five significant initiatives drove the effort — three blitz builds in 1992, 1995, and 2000; Operation Home Again and the New Haven Subdivision in response to the devastating 2005 tornado; and the Glenwood Community Development Initiative, a resident-led, collaborative venture where community partners focused efforts in a single geographic location. The Need The lack of decent and affordable housing in our area creates tremendous instability in our neighbor-hoods, weakens our economy, and impacts our health and educational success. A recent United Way of Indiana study defined a new category of low income families, ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained and Employed). In the City of Evansville, 46 percent of households live below the ALICE threshold, either in poverty or in the new ALICE category on which the study reports. The study further evaluated community conditions for ALICE in three core areas. Community Support received a “good” rating (70 out of 100), Job Opportunities were “fair” (54/100), and Housing Affordability was ranked “poor” (45/100). What Habitat Believes Habitat believes that housing is foundational to breaking the cycle of poverty. Housing directly impacts four important quality of life measures which we know break that cycle. Housing affects health. Housing affects children’s achievement in school. Housing affects job-related satisfaction and the likelihood of adults’ achieving more education and a better-paying job. And perhaps, most importantly, housing affects one’s overall attitude toward life — feeling more positive, more able to handle life’s challenges, and greater hope for the future. What Habitat Will Do During the next four years Habitat will work collaboratively with other housing providers to transform seven center city neighborhoods in Evansville and Mt. Vernon. Habitat will bring to the table its unique homeownership model of sweat equity and pay back, and very importantly, an intense focus on family support. And while we prepare to scale up our efforts dramatically — building our 500th home by 2018 —Habitat realizes the house is the vehicle. The family’s transformation is the outcome.