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Virtually nowhere in the US can a full-time minimum wage employee afford a one-bedroom apartment. Even two such jobs won’t rent a two-bedroom apartment in 29 states and the District of Columbia.
Some 200 million households in the developing world are located in slums.
Today, an estimated 1.6 billion people are living in substandard and inadequate shelter.
More than half of all adults have made at least one tradeoff in the past three years to cover their rent or mortgage, including taking a second job, cutting back on health care and healthy food, or moving to less safe neighborhoods.
90% of surveyed Habitat homeowners in 44 U.S. cities said they could not have owned a home without help from Habitat.
330 million urban households around the world live in substandard housing or are financially stretched by housing costs.
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FAMILIES HOUSED TO DATE
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HOURS VOLUNTEERED in 2017
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TONS OF MATERIALS KEPT OUT OF LANDFILLS in 2017
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AVERAGE EQUITY ($$) SAVED BY OUR HOMEOWNERS