 We are a Christian non-profit
organization that strives to build simple decent
affordable housing. Lakes Area Habitat for
Humanity is a locally run affiliate out of
Brainerd that is a member of a world wide effort
to eliminate poverty housing! We service all of
Cass, Crow Wing & Hubbard Counties. We've also
built homes on the Mille Lacs Reservation.
We
partner with local businesses,
volunteers, clubs and churches to help build
homes with qualifying families. Volunteers
provide most of the labor, and individual and
corporate donors provide money and materials to
build Habitat houses. Partner families
themselves invest 300 hours of labor - "sweat
equity" - into building their homes and the
homes of others. Their mortgage payments go into
a revolving Fund for Humanity that is used to
build more houses.
 We
select families in a way that
does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex,
color, age, handicap, religion, marital status,
or because all or part of the applicant's income
is derived from public assistance.
Over the last 17 years, Lakes
Area Habitat for Humanity has worked
successfully with community volunteers, churches
and businesses to build and renovate 60 homes
with families. It’s life changing work for our
volunteers as well as the families we serve.
Habitat for Humanity offers qualified families
the opportunity to buy a simple and decent home
affordably. Lakes Area HFH Partner Families and
volunteers have built homes in the communities
of Baxter, Brainerd, Breezy Point, Crosby,
Crosslake, Cuyuna, Deerwood, Emily, Federal Dam,
Fort Ripley, Hackensack, Hinckley, Ironton,
Isle, Jenkins, Lake Shore, LaPorte, Onamia,
Pillager, Pine River, Riverton, Scearcyville and
Walker. The over 250 people in those families
now have a decent home through the good work of
Lakes Area Habitat for Humanity. |
