Cost of Homes Advocacy Campaign
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Families across the United States pay too much for their home. Rent and homeownership costs are skyrocketing, while wages are not keeping pace. Everywhere you look – cities, suburbs, rural areas – the stability that home brings remains out of reach for too many families. Families should never have to spend more than 30% of their income on a home. Unfortunately, over 18 million households pay half or more of their income on a place to live. That means 1 in 6 families are denied the personal and economic stability that safe, decent and affordable housing provides. They are forced to make extremely difficult choices between having safe homes and having nutritious food on the table — or proper health care, access to good schools, reliable transportation, etc.
HFHI Cost of Homes Overview |
Habitat on the Hill
Habitat on the Hill, Habitat for Humanity International’s annual legislative conference, is an opportunity for Habitat staff, board members, homeowners, resident leaders, volunteers and supporters from around the country to unite as advocates for safe and affordable housing.
Habitat on the Hill 2021: For home, from home
Habitat on the Hill 2021: For home, from home will be Habitat’s first virtual legislative conference! Without the constraints of a physical space, we will welcome new and seasoned advocates alike, providing opportunities to engage even more housing supporters to raise a larger collective voice than ever before!
The three-day virtual Habitat on the Hill 2021 conference highlights will include:
Habitat on the Hill 2021: For home, from home
Habitat on the Hill 2021: For home, from home will be Habitat’s first virtual legislative conference! Without the constraints of a physical space, we will welcome new and seasoned advocates alike, providing opportunities to engage even more housing supporters to raise a larger collective voice than ever before!
The three-day virtual Habitat on the Hill 2021 conference highlights will include:
- Insight from esteemed keynote speakers and housing policy experts.
- Virtual networking opportunities with peers from across the country.
- Discussions on federal policy solutions for racial equity in housing.
- Analysis of how election outcomes influence housing policy.
- Virtual meetings with representatives and senators to advocate for our policy priorities.
- Opportunities to advance our collective Cost of Home goal to improve home affordability for 10 million people.