This tax season, we invite you to designate all or part of your refund to Habitat for Humanity through the Oregon Charitable Checkoff. It's easy! This blog explains how it works. Your support goes beyond bricks and mortar; it opens the door to prosperity and resiliency and fosters a sense of belonging for our neighbors and friends. Together, we can build homes, unlock stability and transform lives.

Lasting affordability efforts keep housing prices in reach across generations, enable homeowners to gain equity and share in value appreciation over time, help residents with low or modest incomes avoid displacement, and avert gentrification of communities. Community land trusts (CLT) play a bigger and bigger part of Habitat’s work to ensure homes remain affordable.

What an amazing year we had: three families moving into their Habitat built or rehabilitated homes, another local Habitat family paying off their mortgage, a record number of corporate groups of volunteers assisting us, our repair program helping dozens of vulnerable homeowners, the return of our volunteer recognition event, record sales in the Forest Grove ReStore all year, and so much more. We are so grateful to all of our supporters who made our activities and accomplishments possible in 2024. Check out the stories (and photos!) below:

West Tuality Habitat for Humanity has supported more than 100 households in 2024 through its programs to support vulnerable homeowners in Western Washington County, Oregon, and financial support from Lowe’s has been crucial in making this possible. 

On Saturday, December 7, 2024, West Tuality Habitat’s four newest aspiring homeowners began their sweat equity for homes of their own, starting with a tool clinic by Brian Martin, our construction manager, on a very cold, wet morning at our Countryman estates site in Forest Grove, Oregon. Attendees learned about the most essential hand tools they will be using, as well as a brief introduction to some of the power tools they will use most. Tool belts and tool boxes were also discussed, as was what construction projects the group would work on together first.