About Buffalo Habitat

Our Purpose

• To create Decent Housing to Unleash Potential
• In clean, decent, stable housing, families can provide stability for their children; a family’s sense of dignity and pride grow; health, physical safety, and security improve; and educational and job prospects increase.

Our Vision

• To create a community with healthy, safe, and affordable housing for all.
• For a large portion of low-income families, homeownership is out of reach. However, Habitat’s unique homeownership model provides a solution to this problem by offering low-income families the opportunity to purchase their own simple, decent, affordable home. HFHEB's no-interest loans make purchasing a home possible for community members whose income falls at or between 30 and 60 percent of the state’s median income.
• Our goal is to put adequate housing issues on the hearts and minds of people in such a powerful way that poverty housing and homelessness become socially, politically, and religiously unacceptable.

Our Mission

• To eliminate poverty housing from Johnson County and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
• In a spirit of collaboration and fellowship, Buffalo Habitat for Humanity of the Eastern Bighorns works with individuals, institutions, businesses, and the Habitat families themselves to build simple, decent, affordable housing for those living in substandard conditions in our community.

Our mission and history

• Take a quick tour of our mission, methods and current progress.
• Find in-depth answers to frequently asked questions in this fact sheet.
• Read the history of Habitat or view our photo timeline.

Who we are

• We are a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian ministry founded on the conviction that every man, woman and child should have a decent, safe and affordable place to live. We build with people in need regardless of race or religion. We welcome volunteers and supporters from all backgrounds.
• Meet our Board of Directors and our CEO, Jonathan Reckford.
• Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn are Habitat's most famous supporters. The couple annually leads the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project.

What we build

• Our houses are simple, decent, and affordable to low-income families around the world. See what Habitat houses are like around the world.
• Whenever possible, we build sustainable, energy-efficient and healthy housing. Learn more about our construction technologies.

Why we build

• Nearly 2 billion people around the world live in slum housing and over 100 million are homeless. Habitat for Humanity is needed to help eliminate poverty by providing simple, decent shelter to those in need.
• Families left homeless by natural disasters, war and civil unrest often face dire housing situations as they struggle to rebuild their lives. Habitat for Humanity’s Disaster Response program provides shelter and housing solutions to help these families recover.

How it’s possible

• Homeowners and volunteers build under trained supervision.
• Individuals, corporations, faith groups and others provide vital financial support. Learn more about Habitat's stewardship of these resources in our Annual Report and Financial Statement.
• In the U.S., Habitat for Humanity lends no-profit, no-interest mortgage loans to its beneficiary families.
• On a global scale, Habitat’s traditional model is not always possible. Our international housing finance programs consist of innovative housing finance practices and/or partnerships with microfinance organizations.

Learn more

• HabitatLearns provides free in-depth knowledge on housing issues.
• Visit the Global Village and Discovery Center in Americus, Georgia. Learn about the devastating effects of poverty everywhere. See life-size Habitat houses from countries around the world.
• Learn more about who we are and what we do around the world every day. Visit our newsroom for press releases, articles, photos and videos about Habitat for Humanity.