Habitat for Humanity of York County (HFHYC) is a non-profit, Christian-based housing ministry. We seek to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness in the towns of Rock Hill, Fort Mill, Clover, and York. Further more, we strive to make decent housing a matter of conscience and action.

How It Works

Through volunteer labor and tax-deductible donations of money, professional services, and materials, Habitat builds simple, decent houses in partnership with the homeowners. Habitat houses are sold to partner families at no-profit and financed with no-interest loans. The homeowners’ monthly mortgage payments are recycled to build more Habitat homes for other families.

Habitat for Humanity is a volunteer movement. Citizens, businesses, churches, and civic organizations from the community come together as volunteers to carry out important work of home construction, family selection and support, fundraising, finding land and other critical tasks of the Habitat affiliate. The lifeblood of Habitat is the volunteers, whose spirit represents putting faith into action to eliminate poverty housing with their neighbors.

Habitat is not a give-away program. We are a “hand-up” and not a “hand-out” program. Families must
qualify through an application process to become a homeowner. In addition to monthly mortgage
payments and closing costs, homeowners invest hundreds of hours of their own labor (sweat equity),
into building their houses and the houses of others.

Families in need of decent shelter must meet three criteria:

• have the need for adequate shelter
• have the ability to repay the mortgage by having steady income
• be willing to partner with us by investing sweat equity hours