DuPage Future Homeowner Sweat Equity

Please sign up for volunteer opportunities that say Sweat Equity at the beginning!

DuPage Habitat works toward a vision of a world where everyone has a safe and affordable place to live. Habitat homeowners helps build/rehab their own homes alongside volunteers and pay an affordable mortgage. Through financial support, volunteering, or adding a voice to support affordable housing, everyone can help families achieve the strength, stability, and self-reliance they need to build better lives for themselves.

Sweat equity is the non-monetary investment someone makes in the building process. It’s about doing the hard work to bring an idea to life. At Habitat for Humanity, that means you'll likely spend some times helping build your home or another family's home. It’s not a form of payment, but an opportunity to work alongside volunteers and sponsors to bring a family’s dream of owning a home to life.

Sweat equity can take many forms for partner families working with Habitat: construction work on the build site, volunteering in a Habitat ReStore, assisting in administrative duties, attending an event, or more. 

This co-working approach informs Habitat’s emphasis on sweat equity: all of us work together so that homeowners can achieve the strength, stability, and independence they need to build a better life for themselves and for their families.