What is Habitat for Humanity Leeward Oahu?

Habitat for Humanity Leeward Oahu is a local affiliate of a world-wide organization that builds houses with volunteer labor and sells those houses to families in need at affordable rates. It is our mission to eliminate poverty housing in Leeward Oahu. There is an affordable housing and homelessness crisis in Leeward Oahu. With our help, families work alongside volunteers to build a simple, decent home for themselves.

Leeward Habitat, the newest Habitat for Humanity affiliate in Hawaii just celebrating its first year anniversary, is quickly establishing itself as a champion for fighting the crisis of poverty housing on Oahu. By building simple, decent affordable homes with volunteer labor, Leeward Habitat is working to achieve many exciting and aggressive goals of:

    ·        Build 4 Habitat houses in 2007
    ·         Develop a 3.1 acre parcel purchased to build 32 affordable homes
    ·         Build 50 homes by 2012

Leeward Habitat cannot do this on their own. Community and business support is vital to making this happen. Please look through this website and find out ways that you can get involved today! Click here to download our brochure for more information.

Habitat for Humanity International
Habitat has built more than 200,000 houses around the world, providing more than 1,000,000 people in more than 3,000 communities with safe, decent, affordable shelter. Habitat International was founded in 1976 by Millard Fuller along with his wife Linda. To find out more about Habitat for Humanity International, visit www.habitat.org.

How does it work?                                                                                                                                                    
Through volunteer labor and donations of money and materials, Habitat builds and rehabilitates simple, decent houses with the help of the homeowner (partner) families. Habitat houses are sold to partner families at no profit, financed with affordable loans. The homeowners' monthly mortgage payments are used to build still more Habitat houses. Habitat is not a giveaway program. In addition to a down payment and the monthly mortgage payments, homeowners invest hundreds of hours of their own labor -- sweat equity -- into building their Habitat house and the houses of others.

How are the partner families selected?
Families in need of decent shelter apply to local Habitat affiliates. The affiliate's family selection committee chooses homeowners based on their level of need, their willingness to become partners in the program and their ability to repay the loan. Every affiliate follows a nondiscriminatory policy of family selection. Neither race nor religion is a factor in choosing the families who receive Habitat houses.

If your family, or a family you know, is in need of decent, affordable housing, contact Habitat for Humanity Leeward Oahu at (808) 696-7882.
 

Board of Directors

Robert Sullivan, President
Kealoha Arelliano, Vice President
Ron Federizo, Secretary
Leilani Guerrero, Treasurer

Marilyn Castro
Jospeh Lapilio III
Michael Loscalzo
Sharon Moran
Dennis Miyashiro
Ross Rolirad

Staff
Susan Hughes, Executive Director
Ana Piloton, Office Manager