Our Towns Habitat for Humanity, an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, serves Mooresville, Davidson, Cornelius, and Huntersville. A nonprofit Christian housing ministry, it serves people of all beliefs. Our Towns has built 155 Habitat homes since 1988 and has funded an additional 712 homes in Guatemala and 15 in Sri Lanka as part of the Habitat tithe program, impacting more than 880 families locally and globally.

This year, Our Towns Habitat will build twenty more simple decent and affordable Habitat homes in partnership with families in need. Habitat homeowners purchase their homes with a no interest, no-profit mortgage. Their mortgage payments go into a revolving Fund for Humanity, which in turn funds more Habitat homes. Homeowners work to build their own homes and the homes of other Habitat homeowners through more than 200 hours of “sweat equity.”

Our Towns Habitat has been committed to green/sustainable building practices for many years.

It was recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with a 2008 ENERGY STAR Leadership in Housing Award for its important contribution to energy-efficient construction and environmental protection. All of its homes have received the ENERGY STAR rating since 2004 and most have exceeded the ENERGY STAR standards. This year, Our Towns received one of three Affiliate of the Year awards by Habitat for Humanity International for extraordinary accomplishments in advancing Habitat for Humanity’s mission.