The challenge
Around the world, 1 in 3 people wake up each day without the stability and security of a safe, affordable home. This global housing crisis affects families in every community — including right here in Central Florida.
A global movement
To meet this challenge, Habitat for Humanity is launching Let’s Open the Door, an effort designed to ignite a worldwide movement for housing access and opportunity. As we celebrate 50 years of partnering with families and communities, we’re inviting people everywhere to take action and help open doors that have long been closed.
Through hands-on builds, compelling new research, pop-up experiences in select cities and storytelling that elevates lived experience, Let’s Open the Door shines a light on the realities families face — and the solutions that can help transform them.
Our local role
Habitat for Humanity Greater Orlando & Osceola County plays a vital part in the mission behind Let’s Open the Door. Here in Orlando, we are working every day to widen access to safe, decent, affordable housing. Through home builds, repairs, housing counseling, financial education, and other programming, Habitat Orlando & Osceola serves more than 1,500 people each year.
Our programs echo the themes of the global campaign: removing barriers, strengthening communities and opening the door to stability and opportunity.
Habitat is popping up in Orlando
As part of this global effort, a Let’s Open the Door pop-up door installation will appear in Orlando at Lake Eola’s Washington Plaza on April 18 and 19. This interactive moment invites residents, passersby and visitors to learn more about:
• the realities families face in our community
• what stable, affordable housing makes possible
• how local Habitat programs help open doors every day
If you arrived here after seeing the doors: welcome. We’re glad you’re here.
Why it matters here
Families in Central Florida face many of the same challenges highlighted in Let’s Open the Door. By sharing our work and connecting it to this worldwide effort, we’re helping more people understand what’s at stake — and how local solutions create lasting change.
Learn more To explore Let’s Open the Door and the impact Habitat is making around the world, click here.