Restore's Habitat For Humanity

In all, Habitat for Humanity is doing a wonderful service for the unfortunate people that just need a home to get back onto their feet. If I were to give to the unfortunate, I would not expect anything in return. That is why I would choose Habitat for Humanity for

George believes Habitat for Humanity is less helpful than it actually seems. The organization in actuality increases the chances of people being in debt and oversimplifies how to address the problem of poverty. For example, in the text Diana George states “Habitat’s catch phrase - A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out - appeals to a nation that believes anyone can achieve economic security with just the right attitude and set of circumstances” (George 678). I believe that this quote portrays is non realistic because if achieving economic security was as simple as changing an attitude, the number of poor people would rapidly decrease in a small amount of time, then we would not have the issue of poverty.

With a large homeless community and vacant houses one of the first natural thoughts could be to renovate these houses, and turn them into homes for the homeless. But, it just may not be that simple. In the article, Barbara Samuels, who is a managing attorney for the ACLU of Maryland’s Fair Housing Project referenced an attempt to do that exact same thing about two decades ago. A developer named James Rouse and city officials put forth more than $130 million into a poverty-stricken neighborhood to rehabilitate houses and build more, and sadly there are even more vacant houses than before. Unfornately, this probably caused some people to feel there is nothing that can be done, and loose all hope in restoring these homes.

There are a number of charities and not-for-profit organisations that support donations covering clothes, furniture, home items and in same cases food (normally via restaurants and supermarkets). Some of these have programs to help the needy either by redistributing and some re-sell these items cheaply which provided funds and an income stream for their charity/organisation. In all cases this reduces waste and provides an opportunity to re-use and make better use of items that are not needed by the original owners.

They established the Team Depot, which is the association that consist of volunteer program and working with other people to create a good relationship between the company and the community. According to the Home Depot Foundation, the mission of the Team Depot is to improve homes for veterans. They donate their time, tools and supplies to help these people. The result from working with other people on their volunteer program, it creates a friendly environment and trust that many people look forward to their company. Other than the Team Depot, the way that Home Depot sells their product also considering a giving back, because they sell a high quality product with a cheaper price than other companies. This means that their company willing to pay the difference in price of the products for the sake of their customers. This would result in the net profit that they could make, but it will attract more customer. Therefore, this type of philanthropic such as giving back could also be a very powerful strategy to promote themselves and attract more customer to support

I had gotten into contact with Habitat for Humanity it is a nonprofit Christian housing ministry. The Detroit location was founded in 1986 and has provided 400 families with a more stable home environment, moving families out of substandard poor quality living conditions (Habitat for Humanity, 2016). What habitat does is simply build or renovate existing homes partnering with individuals in need to assist them from being left homeless due to natural disasters, poverty also who faces terrible housing situations such as evictions as families struggle to gain some form of independence back (Habitat for Humanity, 2016). Essentially Habitat for humanity offers individuals and families (single mother and 2 parent) a second chance at home ownership. To qualify for this program the persons must display a need for housing, they have to establish proof of living in overcrowded conditions, the lost previous home due to non-payment of mortgages and not being eligible for homeownership. Homeowners must be employed and earn annual wages in excess of $22,000, however the minimum level of income will increase with the size of the family. The candidate cannot have any delinquent debit that exceeds over $1500, this excludes any medical and educational expenses and finally candidates have to invest 250 to 350 hours on building their perspective home and a down payment of $2000 (Habitat for Humanity, 2016). This seems like a good incentive for helping low income families,

Habitat for Humanity is a good example of a nonprofit organization that through its volunteer gathering and fundraising attempts may actually be hindering more of the people they are trying to help than actually helping them.(679,680) Habitat’s marketing gives the idea that a person in poverty that needs help wear dirty torn clothes and live in run down shack will have no home at all.(679) The idea is to put these perceptions of poverty into people’s minds in hopes that it will elicit the good in them to not only give their money but their time.(680) The problem is this gives the public the idea that poverty has one face and does not provide them with a picture of what the full spectrum of poverty looks like.(682) Another problem is, these ads perpetuate the idea that poverty is an individual issue that’s easy to spot and just as easy to fix with a little money and volunteer

A small town in Findlay, Ohio has always had programs in place for those affected by poverty. However, the programs were spread throughout the town making it difficult for those in need to reach them all. In order to fix this problem, they combined all their outreach programs into one building in order to make it much easier for people to reach it. The largest obstacle that those in need of these programs face is being able to have the humility to go and ask for help; some people view this as embarrassing. The programs include medical care with pricing based on income, dental work, career assistance, and also food and clothing donations. Programs like this are beginning to have more and more publicity which opens doors for others to give to them. Although programs like this have their limits, they still help those in need at least get a start towards a better life - and also give them something to hope for.

Housing improvement and affordability policy is an ongoing issue that our nation has battled with since desegregation. Affordable housing provision for low-income communities has been researched extensively in the past by nonprofits in Charlottesville , and The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development( HUD). Locally, the Habitat for Humanity store works to ensure this policy issue is properly addressed through making housing improvements as well as building homes for families in need. The Habitat for Humanity Store has worked to make critical home repairs with sponsorship from Home Depot for veterans (Habitat, 2017). There have been other initiatives to address housing improvement needs also. The Charlottesville Redevelopment

My internship at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore allows me to help people have a better living situation and better futures and gives the opportunity to give back to the community as well. Habitat for Humanity is known to build homes for low-income families and provide them with the ability to be economically stable. The second part of Habit for Humanity which is the ReStore earns profit that is put towards building the houses. Furthermore, The financial support for these houses comes from the community who are compassionate to help each other out in the

Recycling is one of the most common ways to keep America clean. The recycling bins are one of the most recognizable logos across the world. People all across the U.S. have recycling bins, inside of their household. The sad thing is most people do not use them, they most of the time just throw stuff in the regular trash that could be recycled. For example, plastic, paper, cans, glass, cardboard, and even computer hardware (www.recycleacrossamerica.org). People don’t realize that they could be doing the world a big favor, just by recycling these everyday items.

One thing that people can say is that everyone desires to have a place to sleep, eat and live. Many people like the idea of having a place they can call home. One organization, Habitat for Humanities, has made ownership a possibility for anyone who desires to have it. For years people have been searching for a less expensive way to begin their journey out of their predicament of not having their own place to lay their head. Nothing can ever come without hard work though; to become a candidate for owning a home, people have to go through numerous classes and engage “sweat equity”. This organization has changed the lives of over a million families in over 1,400 bases internationally. Where this great organization came from is the real question. The answer, an idea; before the idea came a feeling or motion that one person felt they should act on. Millard Fuller, the man who felt there were too many homeless people in the world and decided to do something about it.

One of my highlights from the years was traveling to Jakarta for a conference and learning trip. I was one of few people who got to go to the trash-picker community. Jakarta doesn’t have a very good recycle or even trash system. Thus, people in the lowest class are given the job of sorting the trash to find something or even anything that might be valuable. The XS project has been working with that community, and buying trash from them to turn into recycled items; for example, SAS’s laptop bags are made from recycled banners and other ‘trash’, but the SAS laptop program considers the recycled bags to be functional and helpful.

Additionally, the city could spend more of the taxpayer’s money of these programs. Another option is to increase property tax, and use the revenue for building affordable housing. In order to provide additional space, the city would incorporate land use policies for building additional affordable housing. Finally, the city would need to have additional volunteers for the projects, such as habitat for humanity. Habitat for Humanity is a county volunteer organization that builds homes for the homeless and people living in extreme poverty in Raleigh and Wake County. Morgan (2002) states that housing programs for the homeless do the most for preventing the cycle of the homeless people ending up on the streets, shelters, hospitals, and prisons. One such program was a new strategy to prevent homelessness, introduced by the White House Interagency Council that provided $ 35 million dollars to permanent housing and care for the

Response: Habitat for Humanity’s mission is to bring people together to build homes, communities, and hope. Habitat for Humanity believe that everyone deserves a