Central South Carolina Habitat for Humanity is 
YOUR Local Habitat for Humanity in
​Lexington and Richland Counties

Vision

A world where everyone has a decent place to live.
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Mission

Putting God’s love into action, Central SC Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, community, and hope.

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Everyone deserves a decent place to live, and everyone can do something today to help make that possible for another family.

Central South Carolina Habitat for Humanity was founded in 1985 as an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International. Since 1985, Central South Carolina Habitat for Humanity has built more than 250 homes in partnership with adults and children in Richland and Lexington counties. Habitat is about more than housing.

Habitat homeowners receive financial education, help build their houses and pay an affordable mortgage. A decent place to live and an affordable mortgage create a situation where homeowners can save more, invest in education, pursue opportunity and have more financial stability. With our help, homeowners achieve the strength, stability and independence they need to build a better future for themselves and for their families.

• Virtually nowhere in the U.S. 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. 
• 90 percent of surveyed Habitat homeowners in 44 U.S. cities said they could not have owned a home without help from Habitat. 
• More than half of all adults have made at least one tradeoff in the past three years to cover their rent or mortgage. Tradeoffs include taking a second job, cutting back on health care and healthy food, and moving to less safe neighborhoods.

Future Homeowners are families who have been accepted to build an entire house and are in the process of working on their sweat equity, etc. 
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Future Homeowners become Habitat Homeowners once the dedication has occurred. Habitat Homeowners are also families who partner with us to make repairs and improvements to their existing homes. 

Habitat Fact

The foreclosure rate on Habitat houses in the United States is less  than 2 percent on an annualized basis.

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