Home building
Homeowners, volunteers, and donors gather together to deliver hope to our neighbours.
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Unique characteristics
of Habitat home-
Habitat goals
- Habitat builds home through house
- Habitat builds home, hope, and community
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Construction methods
- Light-weight Wooden frames + Reinforced concrete
- Easy for volunteers and homeowners to take part in construction
- Environmentally friendly design
- Minimalistic and affordable design
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Sweat equity*
- Homeowners participate in the construction process
- Enhancing the sense of home ownership
- Building social bond between homeowners, forging a support community
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Revolving fund
- Repaying the construction cost without interests for a set period of time, encouraging the sense of self-reliance
- The fund repaid will put back into building more homes for other families
* * Sweat equity : Homeowners are required to work 300 hours in construction of homes, both theirs and others. -
Habitat goals
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Home building
statistics (unit : families)(as of 2020)
Habitat Korea’s Domestic projects
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Standard housing project
- Habitat Korea seeks to rebuild the sense of safety and bond among low-income families
- Habitat Korea supplies homes uniquely based on its selection process
- Habitat Korea builds homes according to its standard design, so that we could minimise the cost.
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Designated housing project (Special project)
- General construction project for a specific group of subjects.
- The design of the home is based on the needs of homeowners and the environment they live in.
- The project aims at providing homes with special purpose, shelters, community centres, and/or other functions.
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Key projects
- House : Volvo Village, MetLife Build, etc.
- Facilities : Daejeon Habitat Village for the elderlies living alone and broken families, Cheonan Foreigne Workers Shelter, Seoul Dream Attic, etc.
- Community homes : Shiheung Social Housing, Uleungdo is our home project, etc.
