What is Habitat for Humanity?

• A nonprofit, Christian housing ministry.
• We believe that every person should have a decent, safe and affordable place to live.
• We build and repair houses all over the world using volunteer labor and donations.
• Our partner families purchase these houses through no-profit mortgage loans or innovative financing methods.

How does it work?

• Through volunteer labor and donations.
• Homeowners invest hundreds of hours of their own labor into building their Habitat house and the houses of others.
• Habitat houses are sold to partner families at no profit and financed with affordable loans.
• The homeowners’ monthly mortgage payments are used to build still more Habitat houses.

How do I apply for a Habitat for Humanity house?

• You can apply for a home at any time of the year. You can find our applications at http://www.habitat-ajc.org/ You will need to fill out the Family Application and the USDA-PRE-QUAL_FORM application, fill them out, and send them to: Habitat for Humanity of Adams & Juneau Co. PO Box 100 Mauston, WI 53948. Once we recieve your application our Family Selection Committee will review your applications and get back to you in a timely manner.

How are families selected to receive Habitat houses?

• Families in need of decent shelter apply to local Habitat affiliates.
• Our family selection committee chooses homeowners based on their level of need, their willingness to become partners in the program and their ability to repay the loan.
• We follow a nondiscriminatory policy of family selection.
• Neither race nor religion is a factor in choosing the families who receive Habitat houses.

How are donations distributed and used?

• We rely on gifts from individuals, corporations and other groups to fund our house-building mission. All donations of any amount are deeply appreciated and help us build more decent, affordable houses with more families in Adams and Juneau county.  Donations which are specified will always be used for donors specific request.

Non-Proselytizing Policy

• Habitat for Humanity International and its affiliated organizations will not proselytize.  Nor will HFH work with entities or individuals who insist on proselytizing as part of their work with HFH.  This means that HFH will not offer assistance on the expressed or implied condition that people must adhere to or convert to a particular faith or listen and respond to messaging designed to induce conversation to a particular faith.

Equal opportunity housing 

• We do business in accordance with the Federal Fair Housing Law ( The Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988).  It is illegal to discriminate against any person because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin.
• for further information visit https://www.hud.gov/sites/documents/928.1.PDF