TownIt: Atlanta Habitat for Humanity – ^
In 1976, Millard and Linda Fuller founded Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) after experimenting with housing ministries in Americus, Georgia and Zaire. HFHI is an ecumenical Christian agency dedicated to eliminating substandard housing and to making adequate affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action. In the mid 1980’s, former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn took their first Habitat work trip and the popularity of this budding organization began to spread. Around the time of the Carters’ involvement, in 1983, a group of concerned and motivated individuals in Atlanta founded a local affiliate of Habitat for Humanity. Atlanta Habitat is now one of the largest affordable single-family housing developers in the City, and is the second largest of 1,600 affiliates of Habitat for Humanity in the United States.
Posted By John Michelena of Amerivest Realty, Atlanta Georgia
Filed under: Atlanta, Georgia | Tagged: Atlanta, Charity, GA, Georgia, Housing, Jimmy Carter, John Michelena, Nonprofit, Philanthropy, Volunteer
