Home is the Key
This April, Habitat for Humanity is launching our Home is the Key campaign to highlight the importance of homeownership. Habitat's critical work provides decent, affordable shelter in Lorain County and helps families achieve strength, stability and self-reliance. 

By donating to Habitat in April, you can help local families have a decent place to call home. The community can support our mission by donating at the ReStore cash register and at Northwest Bank in Amherst through out April. 
National facts about the need for affordable housing in the U.S.:
  • One in four households in the U.S. pays more than 30 percent of its income for housing, making it difficult to afford other necessities like food or clothing according to “The State of the Nation’s Housing 2015” Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, 2015.
  • Virtually nowhere in the U.S. can a full-time employee earning minimum wage afford a one-bedroom apartment; even two such jobs won’t rent a two-bedroom apartment in 29 states and the District of Columbia according to the National Low-Income Housing Coalition, 2014.
  • More than half of all adults in the U.S. have made at least one tradeoff in the past three years to cover their rent or mortgage. Tradeoffs include taking a second job, cutting back on health care, and moving to less safe neighborhoods.
  • 90 percent of surveyed Habitat homeowners in 44 U.S. cities said they could not have owned a home without help from Habitat.
Local facts:
  • Lorain County's median monthly household income is $4,542 with a median monthly mortgage payment of $1,278 according to DataUSA. The average household in Lorain County is spending 28% of their income to pay for housing
  • Lorain County's poverty level is at 13.5% with people many of those households income under $2,000 a month according to the US Censes Bureau. The median rental rate in Lorain County is $751. Citizens living in poverty are spending 38% of their monthly income for housing. 

HGTV's Property Brothers, Drew and Jonathan Scott,
​teamed up with Habitat for Humanity during the 2018 Home is the Key campaign.

SPONSORS

Stop in Northwest Bank Amherst at 1175 Cleveland Ave to make a donation.  

2018 Home is the Key Campaign Report