Chicago Area Housing Website - Assistance Program Types


Program Type:	Habitat for Humanity/Sweat Equity Programs

Intended for:	Low-income persons who would like to reduce the cost of buying a home by contributing labor

Description:	'Sweat Equity' is Habitat's name for the labor that Habitat homeowners expend in building their houses and the houses of their neighbors, as well as the time they spend investing in their own self-improvement.

For more information:
http://www.freeholdhabitat.org/habitat/sweat.htm

Programs of this type:
HUD- Self-help Homeownership Opportunity Program (SHOP)
SHOP provides funds for non-profit organizations to purchase home sites and develop or improve the infrastructure needed to set the stage for sweat equity and volunteer-based homeownership programs for low-income families. SHOP is authorized by the Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996 as ammended, Section 11, and is subject to other Federal crosscutting requirements. National and regional nonprofit organizations or consortia with experience in using volunteer labor to build housing may apply this is a competitively based program funded through the NOFA.
National and regional nonprofit organizations or consortia with experience in using volunteer labor to build housing may apply.