Habitat For Humanity-New York Inc

Waste diversion: the habitat for humanity restore in woodside, queens and yonkers, westchester county helps build homes and reduce waste! The restore accepts new and gently used donated overstock and secondhand items, such as furniture, appliances, home decor and building materials to sell at reduced prices. By the end of fiscal year june 2024, the restores had diverted 3,325 tons of waste from the landfill. Restores are nonprofit home improvement stores and donation centers whose proceeds directly support habitat's work building, preserving and advocating for affordable housing.

First-time homebuyer program: homeownership is essential for families to build strength, stability and self-determination. With so many families being priced out of an increasingly expensive rental market, we believe that hard-working new yorkers deserve access to purchase a safe, affordable home. That's why developing both single-family homes and multi-family buildings for low-to moderate-income new yorkers is at the very heart of our mission. For the fiscal year ended june 2024, we completed and sold 2 homes in queens and 3 homes in brooklyn. We continued with the construction of nyc's first new construction project on interboro community land trust. 13 vacant, dilapidated houses were demolished and are being transformed into 13 modular and 3 rehabilitated solar powered, net zero, permanently affordable homes to be sold to qualified homebuyers. Habitat nyc and westchester continued to develop an extensive pipeline of 451 housing units. All locations are financed by private contributions and public subsidies provided by the city and state of new york.

Disaster response: as extreme weather events become more frequent, habitat is ready to assist families in need, not just to stay in their homes, but complete critical repairs to keep homes safe, healthy, and mitigate future disasters. In 2024, habitat nyc and westchester provided grants to assist homeowners in westchester and rockland counties who suffered flood damage in july 2023 and needed emergency repairs to safely reoccupy their homes. In fy24, our flood relief program served low- to moderate-income households in dire need of repairs.

Volunteer engagement: many of our programs depend upon the support of volunteers who donate their time and service. For the fiscal year ended june 2024, we worked with over 2,700 volunteers from the construction site to community spaces across new york. We also offer pathways to deepen engagement with our mission through leadership-driven opportunities and special events. The operational costs of our volunteer program are financed through private institutions and individual donors.

Advocacy: habitat nyc and westchester plays a critical role in housing policy reform to shape a more just housing future. Working with supportive advocates and partners at the local, state and federal level, we advocate for legislation that drives habitat nyc and westchester's mission of building and preserving our vibrant, hard-working communities. New yorkers can use their voices to join in our efforts to build and preserve a more equitable city. As a result of our advocacy efforts, in fiscal year 2024, habitat helped achieve an affordable housing corporation funding increase from $26m to $40.5m and established the $75m new york housing for the future homeownership program in the state budget. We helped secure city funding for the open door ($110m) and neighborhood pillars ($30m) programs and rallied for the city of yes for housing opportunity zoning text amendment that would reform the city's zoning policies to unlock over 100k units of housing.

Community preservation program: we worked with organizations in low-income neighborhoods making capital improvements to public spaces through our community preservation program. The program served two community spaces through the fiscal year ended june 2024 and has revitalized 211 neighborhood spaces in its tenure. Volunteers paint and make light repairs in publicly used facilities such as senior centers, soup kitchens, gyms, lunchrooms, and classrooms for after school programs. We improve the lives of thousands of low-income residents, including registered and drop-by users of these programs. The operational costs of the neighborhood revitalization program are funded through private contributions.