Become a Home Owner
Our Families
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| Home owners Abuid and Gloria Mondragon with sons Eric and Abuid. |
Habitat for Humanity selects families who live in substandard or overcrowded housing and whose income is between 30 and 70 percent of our regional median income, placing the focus on families who would have very little chance of becoming home owners without Habitat. Habitat families are selected based on need for housing, ability to pay the mortgage, and willingness to partner with Habitat to build houses.
The families help build their own homes and those of other Habitat families. They are required to contribute at least 300 hours of "sweat equity" depending on the number of adults in a family. This is time spent helping build houses or volunteering for Habitat in other ways.
Many families continue volunteering long after they have finished their required hours and moved into their own homes.
Our families take great pride in their homes. The families' success as home owners can be measured in many ways. One can see it in the good care they take of their homes. Children's grades and personal expectations for their own lives often improve when they move from a substandard, crowded or high crime situation into a simple, decent affordable home. Partner families gain not only equity, but also personal confidence and satisfaction from helping to build a house and then becoming proud home owners.
Through a combination of sweat equity, volunteer hours, home owner education classes and mentoring, we subscribe to the philosophy that if you give a person a fish you feed them for a day, but if you teach them to fish you feed them for a lifetime.
Your first step to becoming a home owner with Habitat for Humanity is to complete a pre-application. Click here to download, print and complete the pre-application now. (pdf)
After completing the pre-application, you must return it to our office in person with photo ID and a $20.00 application fee as a money order, at 1757 N. East Avenue.
If you have questions or cannot download the pre-application, please contact our office at 941-365-0700, stop by in person, or email our family support staff. CMason@sarasotahabitat.com
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Our Partner
Pampered Moves, Inc. partners with us to help move our new homeowners into their new homes.
