Newly Constructed Habitat Homes
People partner with Edisto Habitat for Humanity daily to offer families strength, stability, and self-reliance through shelter. Each family can build and purchase a decent home with an affordable mortgage through our partnership. A future full of opportunity is built when future homeowners are surrounded and supported by determined volunteers and generous donors.
OUR BUILD PROGRAM
Our build program, a beacon of hope with its focus on new home construction, is a transformative journey for individuals and families. It paves the way for them to own a safe, decent, affordable home, and experience significant improvements in health, safety, and wealth generation. This program is not just about building homes, it's about building better lives.
OUR HOUSES ARE...
OUR BUILD PROGRAM
Our build program, a beacon of hope with its focus on new home construction, is a transformative journey for individuals and families. It paves the way for them to own a safe, decent, affordable home, and experience significant improvements in health, safety, and wealth generation. This program is not just about building homes, it's about building better lives.
OUR HOUSES ARE...
- Safe
- Habitat homes are built to standards that provide families with a durable home that will last a lifetime. The health and overall well-being of the family are driving forces in the pride and attention to detail taken in building our homes.
- Respectable
- Our homes reflect the surrounding community. Made to be modest sizes, they are large enough for the family's needs yet small enough to keep construction and maintenance costs to a minimum.
- Affordable
- The hundreds of hours of labor from volunteers and partner families, combined with our focus on modest size and energy efficiency, ensure that families can purchase Habitat houses at an affordable monthly mortgage. Your support makes this possible, giving families the security of a home they can truly call their own.
THE HOMEOWNERSHIP PROGRAM
Edisto Habitat for Humanity builds new construction homes in Orangeburg County and sells them to individuals at a 0% interest mortgage. Our Homeownership Program is designed to be accessible to qualified low-to-moderate-income individuals and families who cannot qualify for a conventional loan. The homes we build are simple, decent, and, most importantly, affordable, thanks to our donors, volunteers, and interest-free mortgages.
It is essential to know that the Habitat Homeownership Program does not give homes away, and Habitat homes are not free. Habitat homeowners make monthly payments at approximately 28-30% of the buyer/owner's gross income. The monthly payment includes the mortgage, property taxes, and homeowner's insurance.
Our Homeownership Program is a community effort. By working closely with volunteers, families, individuals, corporations, congregations, and donors, we can address this critical housing issue throughout Orangeburg County. Each contribution is vital, and we work together to make homeownership possible for these hardworking families and individuals. Learn about the details of becoming a homeowner.
It is essential to know that the Habitat Homeownership Program does not give homes away, and Habitat homes are not free. Habitat homeowners make monthly payments at approximately 28-30% of the buyer/owner's gross income. The monthly payment includes the mortgage, property taxes, and homeowner's insurance.
Our Homeownership Program is a community effort. By working closely with volunteers, families, individuals, corporations, congregations, and donors, we can address this critical housing issue throughout Orangeburg County. Each contribution is vital, and we work together to make homeownership possible for these hardworking families and individuals. Learn about the details of becoming a homeowner.
