Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia’s Home Repair programs build on Habitat’s traditional partnership model using affordable payment options, sweat equity, and volunteer labor to work alongside homeowners to maintain safety and security in their homes, make necessary critical repairs, or pay utility bills.
Habitat Philadelphia repair programs include The Federal Home Loan Bank Home Repair Program, the CAPABLE Program, the Veteran Repair Corps Program, and the BUILD Health Challenge. Each of these programs is defined below.
Through each of these home repair programs, the Home Repair Team works diligently alongside Philadelphia homeowners with a focus on repairs that improve quality of life, keep homes warm, safe, and dry, and allow homeowners to “age in place.”
We select neighborhoods based on need, and spend several years working alongside homeowners in those communities to make the biggest possible impact in stabilizing homes, blocks, and the neighborhood as a whole. The FHLB Home Repair Program’s work is currently focused in Mill Creek, Belmont, and Mantua in West Philadelphia, and in Brewerytown, Sharswood, North Philadelphia West, and Strawberry Mansion in North Philadelphia.
Are you in need of repairs? Do you live in one of the areas below?
How to applyFill out our Program Inquiry Form, or contact the Homeowner Services team at family@habitatphiladelphia.org if you fall in one of the categories below.
CAPABLE is a new program to provide aging-in-place repairs for elderly homeowners so that they can remain safe and healthy in their homes for as long as possible and live with the best health possible. This program combines the efforts of the nurses and occupational therapists from Jefferson and Drexel with Habitat’s Home Repair Program in order to “prescribe” changes to the built environment that patients inhabit. Contact family@habitatphiladelphia.org for more information.
Since 2011, The Home Depot Foundation has generously funded critical repairs on the homes of veterans through Habitat for Humanity’s Philadelphia Veteran Repair Corps program. This program is open to all military veterans throughout Philadelphia, provided they have received an honorable or general discharge, and is not restricted to any specific veteran groups. For an application and more information email family@habitatphiladelphia.org.