The Gloucester County Habitat for Humanity's mission is to build safe, decent and affordable housing for low-income families.

Description:
Habitat for Humanity obtains financing, land, and materials to build homes for low-income people who have passed screening to determine their suitability to receive a home. It is a volunteer-driven organization whose volunteers provide the "sweat" equity in building the homes. Future homeowners also must provide some of the labor to build their homes.

Currently, homes are being built in Clayton and Woodbury.

History:
In 1986, several concerned Gloucester County residents from church and community organizations recognized the need to serve low-income families by building affordable housing. Gloucester County Habitat for Humanity (GCHFH) was founded to meet that need. Since then, fifteen houses have been built or rehabilitated in communities throughout Gloucester County to include Glassboro, Woodbury, Pitman, Clayton and Paulsboro. The houses were built with an all volunteer effort. No government funding was utilized.

In 2005, GCHFH began a major subdivision of twelve single-family houses in Clayton. This is the largest single Habitat project in the Northeast U.S. Three of the houses are built and currently occupied by low-income families.

In the summer of 2008, GCHFH started a retail operation known as ReStore. ReStore will accept and sell good quality, donated items such as furniture, appliances, home furnishings/ fixtures and building materials. Items will be sold at deep discount. Net proceeds will help GCHFH in meeting its mission in building affordable housing.

Contact people:

Allan G. Connors, Executive Director, (phone), (email) Christine Sloan, (phone), (email)

Address:

425 S. Broadway Pitman, NJ 08071 (See a map)