Habitat For Humanity St Tammany West

Restore: the habitat restore sold $1,213,745 of recycled and gently used building materials, home furnishings, and household goods; thereby avoiding substantial additions to area landfills. The net profits of the restore were solely dedicated to the building of the seven homes described above.

Homeowner services: the organization operates the st. Tammany homeownership center, which provides services to both low and moderate income homebuyers. The homeownership center helps people explore, prepare for, and sustain successful homeownership. This includes pre-purchase counseling, homebuyer training, and post-purchase counseling. In addition to the partner families that purchased habitat homes this fiscal year, the homeownership center also helped fifteen families achieve homeownership using other affordable mortgage products. In june 2020, the st. Tammany homeownership center was approved as a hud local housing counseling agency, currently the only such approved agency in st. Tammany parish.

Volunteer services: the organization is dependent upon volunteers, from the local area as well as nationwise, to help fulfill its mission. The affiliate hosted 1,235 volunteers at its construction sites and restore during the fiscal year. Those volunteers, under trained supervision, donated nearly 18,000 hours (8.65 full time equivalents) to the organization.