Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry. HFHI seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
East St. Tammany Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with God and people of all faiths and races to develop communities for people in need by building and renovating houses, creating homeownership opportunities.
The need for housing assistance in East St Tammany continues to be dramatic. In the study, “A Place To Call Home,” from 2008 by The St. Tammany Housing Partnership determined that a minimum of 10,000 affordable housing units would need to be built by 2012 in order to meet the growing need for affordable housing in St. Tammany Parish. While our efforts joined with many other service organizations in our Parish have worked to decrease this need we are far from where we need to be in 2013.