Where We Build
Currently Elizabeth City Habitat for Humanity serves Pasquotank County, NC. The State Employees Credit Union issued a challenge to NC Habitat for Humanity to construct or renovate a house in each of our 100 counties over the next three years.
What We Build
What Are Habitat Houses Like?
Simple, decent and affordable.
Habitat houses around the world are built according to the same 3 guiding principles:
Simple:
Habitat houses are modestly-sized. They are large enough for the homeowner family's needs, but small enough to keep construction and maintenance costs to a minimum.
Decent:
Habitat for Humanity uses quality, locally-available building materials. Habitat house designs reflect the local climate and culture.
Affordable:
The labor of volunteers and partner families, efficient building methods, modest house sizes and no-profit loans make it affordable for low-income families to purchase Habitat houses.
Habitat Houses in North America
Habitat houses in the United States and Canada are typically built using wood frame construction, Gypsum board interior walls, vinyl siding and asphalt shingle roofs. Some affiliates also use proven alternative building materials such as adobe or straw bale construction.
U.S. and Canadian Habitat houses are modestly-sized by North American standards. Habitat’s guidelines dictate that a 3-bedroom Habitat house may have no more than 1,050 square feet of living space.
Habitat for Humanity’s commitment to build with people in need readily extends to those with disabilities. When possible, Habitat houses incorporate basic accessible design features, such as a zero-step entrance and wide passage doors and hallways. Houses built in partnership with families with disabilities include additional accessibility features.
Habitat Houses in Local Area
Elizabeth City Habitat for Humanity rehabilitated and sold three houses in the summer of 2014. These houses had been part of foreclosure by Wachovia/Wells Fargo Bank. These houses were nearly complete at the time they were acquired but required a great deal of work since nothing had been done on the properties for several years. Foreclosed houses were rehabbed in 2016 and 2018. A new home construction was finished in 2020 and another home was recently completed in 2024.
This home is more than a house. It is a home with love, built with love and hope and dreams, because of Habitat for Humanity. You've given our family hope - no matter how bad things get or have been in the past. God has blessed our family with the caring, supportive, concerned, kind people at Habitat.