Our Mission
Habitat for Humanity of Coastal Fairfield County seeks to build community and improve lives by partnering with low-income families, community volunteers and donors to build decent and affordable homes in stable and welcoming neighborhoods.
Our Vision
A world where everyone has a decent place to live.
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Where We Build.
Our service area includes 13 towns and cities across the region, including Bridgeport, Darien, Easton, Fairfield, Greenwich, Monroe, Newtown, Shelton, Stamford, Stratford, Trumbull, Norwalk, and Westport.
About Habitat for Humanity of Coastal Fairfield County
Habitat for Humanity of Coastal Fairfield County (Habitat CFC) is a nonprofit organization that builds affordable homes in partnership with families earning 40-70% of the area median income. We sell the homes to our partner families with 30-year interest-free mortgages based on the buyer’s ability to pay to ensure long-term affordability. Habitat CFC has a well-earned reputation for success in transforming abandoned properties into homes for taxpaying community members, building nearly 300 homes housing over 1,227 family members since our founding in 1985.
We are dedicated to eliminating substandard housing by constructing new homes and rehabilitating existing homes so Habitat CFC homeowners can achieve the strength, stability and independence they need to build a better future for themselves and their families. Habitat for Humanity was founded on the conviction that every man, woman and child should have a simple, durable place to live in dignity and safety, and that decent shelter should be a matter of conscience and action for all.
Habitat CFC also operates a ReStore in Stratford, CT, a nonprofit home improvement store and donation center that sells quality new and used furniture, appliances, home accessories and building materials to the public at low cost. We are protecting the environment by keeping items out of landfills and all the proceeds from the store go directly to building more Habitat homes!
About Habitat for Humanity International
Founded in Americus, Georgia, USA, Habitat for Humanity today operates around the globe and has helped more than 1 million families — representing 6.8 million people — improve their living conditions since its founding in 1976.
Non-proselytizing policy
Habitat for Humanity Coastal Fairfield County will not proselytize, nor will Habitat work with entities or individuals who insist on proselytizing as part of their work with Habitat. This means that Habitat will not offer assistance on the expressed or implied condition that people must adhere to or convert to a particular faith or listen and respond to messaging designed to induce conversion to a particular faith.
Equal Housing Opportunity
We are pledged to the letter and spirit of the U.S. policy for the achievement of equal housing opportunity throughout the nation. We encourage and support affirmative advertising and marketing programs in which there are no barriers to obtaining housing because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, family status, or national origin.
