Agency Details:

Habitat For Humanity Topeka

Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry. We seek to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. To accomplish these goals, we invite people of all backgrounds, races and religions to build houses together in partnership with families in need. Today, we have built over 70 houses around Topeka providing families in our communities with safe, decent, affordable shelter.

Description:
Through volunteer labor and donations of money and materials, Habitat builds and rehabilitates simple, decent houses alongside our homeowner (partner) families. Habitat is not a giveaway program. In addition to a down payment and monthly mortgage payments, homeowners invest hundreds of hours of their own labor (sweat equity) into building their Habitat house and the houses of others.
Habitat houses are sold to partner families at no profit and financed with affordable loans. The homeowners’ monthly mortgage payments are used to build still more Habitat houses.

History:
Habitat for Humanity was founded in 1976 by Millard Fuller, along with his wife, Linda.

Contact people:

Jerry Billinger, Board President, (phone), (email) Toni Shenk, Vice President, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (785) 274-3852

Address:

PO Box 2234 Topeka, KS 66601

Web Site: http://www.topekahabitat.org/

Last updated on August 17, 2009