The latest JWCP was in Houston, Texas, where 6,000 volunteers spend 72,000 hours building 100 houses in June, 1998. And senior citizens, you can be sure, made up a large portion of those volunteers. The houses are sold to partner families at no profit, financed with afforable, no interest loans to the future owners. Habitat carries out its mission at the community level through organized groups that are called affiliates. Affiliates around the world raise the funds used to construct houses.
Home owners make a down payment and monthly payments to purchase their own homes.
They also invest hundreds of hours of their own labor, sweat equity, into the building of their homes and the houses of others. Many, if not most of the volunteers are senior citizens. They can and do work either in their own community, or in another country, one of 58 in which Habitat has affiliates. TCHH was organized in 1984, and has built 18 homes in that time. Currently it is working on three more, one in Bellefonte and two in Patton Township.