Advocacy

From Habitat International: Tell Congress to pass the SLUM Assistance Act!
Today, 1 billion people live in slums, and that number is growing rapidly. Urge your legislators to support the SLUM Assistance Act, a recently-introduced bill that calls on President Obama to help establish programs that create sustainable urban development and give essential services and infrastructure to the poor. Click here  to voice your support and learn more.
Ultimate Goal of Habitat for Humanity
The ultimate goal of Habitat for Humanity is to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the face of the earth by building adequate and basic housing. Furthermore, all of our words and actions are for the ultimate purpose of putting shelter on the hearts and minds of people in such a powerful way that poverty housing and homelessness become socially, politically and religiously unacceptable in our nations and world.

Advocacy Efforts
In addition to building homes and partnering with hard-working, low-income families, an essential aspect of Habitat for Humanity is to advocate on behalf of those in need of decent shelter and for issues that affect affordable housing. Through advocacy, Habitat for Humanity will work to change the systems that lead to poverty housing and give even more families a place to call home.

To support its advocacy efforts, Habitat for Humanity works to maintain an understanding of issues related to housing and poverty. Habitat for Humanity International monitors public policy issues related to housing, community development and international development as it affects our work in the United States and around the world. Explore Habitat's public policy resources.

Habitat for Humanity monitors legislation, programs and regulations related to housing, community development and international development which impact the provision of affordable housing. Learn about Habitat's legislative priorities.