Kauai Habitat for Humanity is a locally run affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, a non profit, ecumenical Christian housing organization. Habitat seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. Habitat has built more than 225,000 houses around the world, providing more than 1 million people in more than 3,000 communities with safe, decent, affordable shelter. In the United States there currently are more than 2,300 affiliates.

Habitat for Humanity Kauai is a community organization, working in partnership with people of all faiths who are dedicated to Habitat's mission of helping families in need to build and renovate decent, affordable housing on the island. Volunteers provide most of the labor, and individual and corporate donors provide money and materials to build Habitat houses. Partner families themselves invest hundreds of hours of labor - 'sweat equity' - into building their homes and the homes of others. Their mortgage payments go into a revolving Fund for Humanity that is used to build more homes. The homes then are sold to those in need at no profit and with no interest charged.

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There is an affordable housing crisis here on Kauai, made obvious to Habitat by the 1,100 families on its waiting list. In June of 2007 we received Final Subdivision Approval on our Eleele ILuna Phase I subdivision, consisting of eighteen fee simple house lots. Six homes are completed and we have 6 more nearing completion for the spring of 2008 and expect all Phase I homes to be finished by fall of 2008.

We recently began our largest most ambitious endeavor – Phase II of the Eleele ILuna project. Phase II, which consists of one hundred and seven fee simple house lots, currently has Tentative Subdivision Approval and the civil construction drawings are in process. As you can imagine this is a very aggressive undertaking but the results as seen in Phase I definitely make it worth the effort. The funds required for the subdivision infrastructure costs are to be loaned to Habitat, but Habitat will need many sponsorship partners to help with the cost of building the individual homes. Even with building costs as high as they are, we are still able to offer qualified families a three bedroom/one and a half bath home on a six thousand square foot lot for a price that keeps the monthly mortgage payment at around $850.00 – considerately less than the monthly cost of a rental on Kauai.

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