Will you be an advocate?

Tell Us Your Preferred Future…and Why Help plan our city’s future. The City of Austin is creating a new comprehensive plan, looking ahead to 30 years of growth and change. Coupled with the community form series, the Imagine Austin Comprehensive Plan has released a survey to gather public opinion on the city’s future. The survey [...]

World Habitat Day Photo Petition

World Habitat Day is October 4! World Habitat Day is a day designated by the UN to call attention to the current global state of the human habitat and push toward adequate housing for all. It is a day for grassroots action, a time for people to unite against substandard housing worldwide. For the second [...]

City Planning: Next Round of Public Input Has Begun!

Which Way, Austin? Help plan our city’s future. The City of Austin is creating a new comprehensive plan, looking ahead to 30 years of growth and change. In their fall series of workshops – Sept. 20 to Oct. 6 – they’re asking the community to help shape a Preferred Scenario for Future Growth. We need [...]

25th Anniversary Gala Tickets Now On Sale!!

25 Years, 275 homes, 50 home repairs.75,000 volunteers. $25 million in donations. Countless lives changed. Now isn’t that a reason to celebrate? On October 16, we will be kicking off our 25th anniversary celebrations with a week long, two house blitz build!! On October 27th, we will be having a Gala at the AT&T Conference [...]

Austin Habitat Raises the Walls on the Home of Magdeli Garcia, sponsored by SAE

This morning, we raised the walls on the Garcia family home at 7306 Thanna’s Way. The home is sponsored by the UT chapter of the SAE fraternity. Future homeowner Magdeli Garcia moved from Mexico to the United States when she was 19. “My mom wanted a better life for us,” she says. Now, at the [...]

Austin Habitat Raises the Walls on the Soto Family Home

This Saturday, we raised the walls on the Soto family home at 7405 Thanna’s Way. Future homeowners Jorge and Yesenia Soto grew up in the same place in Mexico. After both of their families moved to Central Texas, they found each other again and fell in love. They now have a one year old son [...]

Austin Habitat Sponsors with Mission Mortgage to Offer First Time Homebuyer Education

Austin Habitat is extremely excited to announce a significant new partnership with Mission Mortgage! Mission Mortgage will be sponsoring a workshop in our brand new housing counseling program. The homebuying workshop,  called “Realizing the American Dream,” will include information regarding homebuyer readiness, money and credit management, shopping for a home and mortgage, and keeping your [...]

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