About Us

Everyone deserves a place to call home

Greater Indy Habitat provides access to education, house construction, and mortgages for low-to-moderate income buyers to purchase a home without being cost burdened.

Serving first-time buyers in Marion, Hamilton, Hendricks, Hancock, and Shelby Counties

Our Vision & Mission

We envision a world where everyone has a decent place to live

Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

Our Values

Diversity & Inclusiveness

Diversity & Inclusiveness

We celebrate diversity, equity and inclusion and believe everyone deserves an attainable, safe and decent place to live.

Partnership

Partnership

We weave partnership into all that we do and into everything we are. We seek to encourage, create, and sustain strong, productive partnerships emblematic of neighbor loving neighbor.

“Yes, and” Approach

“Yes, and” Approach

In our setting, saying “Yes” encourages people to listen and be receptive to the ideas of others. As builders, we love the concept of “and” as it’s about building up others.

People Over Problems

People Over Problems

Solving problems is ultimately about creating the outcomes we want. We hold the people we bring together to work on outcomes higher than any problems we face.

We Are in the Helping Business

We Are in the Helping Business

In everything we do externally and internally, we recognize that we are here to help one another reach the productivity and aspirations we seek individually and collectively.

Where we serve

Partnering with families in central Indiana since 1987

International

International

Impact

Why Homeownership
866
regional homes built
351
home repairs completed
675
total housing solutions in El Salvador & Kenya

I have only known housing insecurity and Habitat broke that stressful cycle of renting to give me a home to call my own.

Amber, 2024 Habitat Homeowner

Sometimes we forget who we are deep inside but building this home for my family empowered me in countless ways and reminded me who Debera really is.

My kids deserve the best. And I was given the opportunity to use my voice and ask for what I wanted, work for what I wanted.

Debera, 2021 Habitat Homeowner
Amber Toombs
Debera Kurz

Meet Our People

At the heart of our work are the people who make it possible.

Resources

Explore key resources, including career opportunities, impact studies, and reports that highlight our mission in action.

Careers

Check out our open positions and join a team that’s entrepreneurial, energetic, mission-driven, and deeply collaborative.

Careers
Homeowner Impact Study

The Sagamore Institute completed research in 2017 to analyze Greater Indy Habitat’s impact in empowering families and the connection between the ownership of decent and affordable housing and the families’ quality of life.

Homeowner Impact Study
Financials & Reports

Explore our financials and annual reports to see the impact we’ve made over the years. These documents highlight our growth, transparency, and the progress toward our mission.

Financials & Reports

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Questions about Greater Indy Habitat?

Does Habitat for Humanity give homes away?
  • Habitat for Humanity offers homeownership opportunities to low-income individuals and families who are unable to obtain conventional home financing. However, this is a loan to the homeowners not a free gift. Thanks to donations of land, material, labor, resources and volunteers, the cost of building the home is kept low so the mortgage that they are asked to pay is also low. Generally, this includes those whose income is 30 to 80 percent of the area’s median income. Habitat homeowners contribute 200 hours of “sweat equity” by completing an educational program, and volunteering in the construction of their home and other Habitat homes.
Will having a Habitat home in a neighborhood reduce property values?

Housing studies show affordable housing has no adverse effect on neighborhood property values. In fact, the 30-Year-Impact-Study done on the Greater Indy Habitat homeownership program shows that a home increases property value of surrounding homes.

Do only ethnic minorities receive Habitat for Humanity homes?

Habitat builds homes in partnership with those in need regardless of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, familial status, disability, marital status, ancestry, sexual orientation, source of income or other characteristics protected by law. The prospective homeowners must meet three criteria: need, ability to repay the mortgage and a willingness to partner with Habitat.

Do you have to be Christian to become a Habitat homeowner?

Habitat homeowners are chosen without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, familial status, disability, marital status, ancestry, sexual orientation, source of income or other characteristics in keeping with U.S. law and with Habitat’s abiding belief that God’s love extends to everyone. Habitat also welcomes volunteers from all faiths, or no faith, who actively embrace Habitat’s goal of eliminating poverty housing from the world.

Did former U.S. President Jimmy Carter found Habitat for Humanity?

The late Millard Fuller and his wife Linda started Habitat in 1976 in Americus, GA. President Carter and his wife Rosalynn (whose home is eight miles from Americus, in Plains, GA), have been long-time Habitat supporters and volunteers who help bring national attention to the organization’s home-building work. Each year they lead the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project to help build homes and raise awareness of the need for affordable housing.

How can I get more information?

Learn more about supporting our work, volunteering, sponsoring a home, becoming a homeowner, or the Habitat ReStore. With further questions, please email (info@indyhabitat.org) or call 317.921.2121.

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