our homeowners
Everyone deserves a place to call home.
Our future homeowners share one common goal: stability through homeownership.
They’re willing to work hard for it, often juggling family life, full-time jobs, schooling and more in addition to meeting Habitat Orlando & Osceola’s homeownership requirements.
Ownership extends to the process as well as the house with Habitat. We want to ensure our homeowners are deeply invested in their homes, so we ask that they partner with us. They do this in part by attending homeownership classes and volunteering through sweat equity.
A safe, affordable, comfortable home awaits them at the end of this journey. Besides shelter, our homes often bring the stability needed for our homeowners and their families to invest in their education, health, and more.
How can I become a homeowner?
Habitat for Humanity Greater Orlando & Osceola County builds and repairs affordable homes for low-income individuals and families who demonstrate a housing need. Applicants’ willingness to partner with us and ability to pay a mortgage are also considered.
How can I help a homeowner?
We can’t make affordable housing a reality for our community without you.
Join us in creating more affordable housing by donating to us, volunteering with us, or advocating for us.
Home for the Holidays 2023: Joselyn’s Habitat home will open doors of opportunity for her family
Joselyn, who works in records retrieval for a local cancer institute, was shocked when she found out that her home would be built in two weeks. “Right now, it’s just a pile of dirt,” she said. “And one day soon, we’ll be stepping foot in there and just making all kinds of memories.”
Pre-K teacher says forever home will bring stability and security to her family
Cyndi is counting down the days until her family can finally have refuge in their brand-new, affordable Habitat home.
After losing everything to Hurricane Ian, promise of Habitat home keeps Melissa ‘moving forward’
Future homeowner Melissa’s life as she knew it was completely upended on Sept. 29, 2022. That’s when Hurricane Ian plowed through Central Florida, causing unprecedented flooding and more than $200 million worth of damage in Orange County.
Fatima’s story: Chef’s Habitat home will be haven for good food and love
As a chef at an Orlando retirement home, Fatima envisions so many possibilities in her Habitat home’s kitchen. Park Square Homes will build her home in five days in February 2023.
Home for the Holidays homeowner seeks stability, freedom from rising rents
Ebony has partnered with Habitat for Humanity Greater Orlando & Osceola County for the 2022 Home for the Holidays special build. A Maitland-based commercial construction firm, Williams Company, will generously donate the labor and materials to build her home in just two weeks.
From temporary to permanent, new home will bring stability, memories, generational wealth for Tanisha’s family
Tanisha smiled wide as she entered her newly finished future home for the first time. The mother of four has never put a Christmas tree up in her family’s home because their apartments always felt temporary. "It never felt like home," she said. This holiday season...