Home Build
Honolulu Habitat for Humanity provides affordable housing opportunities with 0% interest rate mortgages to hardworking individuals and families in our community.
Families that partner with Honolulu Habitat help build their homes alongside volunteers, participate in financial education classes, and learn how to maintain their new home throughout the program.
How to Qualify
To be eligible for our Home Build program, applicants must meet the following qualifications:
Ability to Pay
Families must demonstrate steady income and be in good financial health.
Need for Housing
Families must be currently living in substandard or cost-burdened housing.
Willingness to Partner
Families that partner with Habitat invest 275 ‘sweat equity’ hours building their own home and the homes of other Habitat families.
How Communities Benefit
When the people of a community are strengthened, the whole community is improved.
Habitat Homeownership Creates Property Tax Payers
Families who partner with Honolulu Habitat are active, invested families who care deeply for the communities they are a part of. As families settle into their new homes and become part of the tax base, the whole community is strengthened.
Habitat Connects People Directly to Those They Are Helping
Every person who volunteers and donates is a key part of changing a family’s future. Partner families aren’t people who are in faraway places – they’re individuals who live and work here in Hawaii.
Committed Home Buyers Improve Homeownership Base
When a community has a high rate of homeownership, a beautiful cycle of investment begins. This commitment to a better community means that everyone enjoys a stronger and healthier neighborhood.
Invested Homeowners Overcome Urban and Rural Blight
When invested homeowners focus their attention on keeping their home, community and aina in excellent condition, neighborhoods enjoy higher levels of safety, security, and pride of ownership.
Volunteering with Habitat Develops Team-Building Skills
There’s something special about serving together, and sharing an experience that is not only enjoyable, but makes a lasting impact for a family in need. Churches, businesses, organizations of all types and sizes can partner with us.