With your help, another family can escape poverty housing!

Make more than a donation; make a decent place to live a possibility for another family this year!

Unwilling to accept the fact that hundreds of families in our community live without adequate shelter, Habitat for Humanity challenges and invites you to join in partnership with people who are living in inadequate housing to improve their living conditions.

Reading-Berks Habitat for Humanity is a 501(c)(3) ecumenical Christian charitable organization which exists to create affordable homeownership opportunities with and for low-income families.   Families who purchase Habitat for Humanity homes must first contribute 400 hours construction labor on a Habitat home, a contribution we call “sweat-equity.”  Homes are sold to the families at no profit, and financed by Reading-Berks Habitat for Humanity with zero-interest mortgages.  The payments made by the families on their mortgages are then used to build more homes in our community.  We rely on volunteers and families contributing sweat-equity for the “un-skilled” labor needed to build the homes.  Working in this way, we believe we provide families a “hand-up” rather than a “hand-out,” while also providing a way for good people to assist hard-working families in our community.