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How can I be
considered for a Habitat for Humanity house?
Thank you for your interest in the possibility of becoming a
partner family with Monadnock Habitat for Humanity.
MHFH collaborates with eligible partner families of
low-to-moderate income. We offer a hand up rather than a
handout to families who help to build their own homes and
then buy them through zero-profit, zero-interest mortgages.
Our partner families invest hundreds of hours of labor -
"sweat equity" - into building their homes and the homes of
others. House payments go into a local Fund for Humanity to
help build more homes.
We build homes with the generous support of volunteers,
local partners and sponsors, national partners, and hundreds
of individual donors. Volunteers provide most of the labor
at a Habitat build, and individual and corporate donors
provide money and materials to build Habitat houses. We help
families achieve homeownership by:
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Keeping down the cost of building
by designing simple homes, building with
volunteer labor and donated materials wherever possible.
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Offering interest free mortgages to partner
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Eligibililty
All Habitat affiliates use the same set of guidelines to
find families eligible to obtain housing with Monadnock
Habitat for Humanity:
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Income Eligibility : Income does not exceed Habitat's
limits, yet is adequate to pay monthly expenses including:
mortgage, property taxes, all utilities, maintenance costs
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Established Need : Current housing is determined to be
unsuitable or substandard – If the other two requirements
are met, we will schedule a “Home Visit” to evaluate level
of need. |
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Willingness to Partner : Habitat and participating families
form a partnership agreement: “Willingness” means not only
completing the required number of hours of “Sweat Equity” on
your house, or other Habitat projects, but also has to do
with wanting to enter into an open honest partner
relationship with Habitat. |
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When MHFH
has available land, we will take applications for
partner families. Please watch the website for
announcements to that effect.
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