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The following information pertains only to families applying for home ownership in the City of Winnipeg.
Criteria will vary from community to community. Please contact your local Habitat representative for details.
Applicants must demonstrate a need for housing. Typically, a family needs to be living in inadequate
rental housing that is too expensive, too small, unsafe, or substandard.
- Potential applicants must have never previously been home owners.
- The total family minimum income to apply is $24,000.
- Overall family income must be below the Statistics Canada low-income cut-off (LICO).
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- The ability to pay a mortgage is critical. At least one adult family member must be working for the previous two years in Winnipeg.
- Habitat gives preference to families with young children.
- There must be a willingness to partner with HFHW. A family is required to complete sweat equity before being eligible to purchase their home. This prerequisite consists of 350 volunteer hours for a single parent and 500 hours for a two-parent family. There are many ways to complete sweat equity: helping in the ReStore, assisting in fundraising efforts, labouring on someone else's home, or working on their own home.
Selected families enter into a partnership agreement with HFHW by signing a contract. Once the sweat equity requirement is completed and the house is built, the family signs an offer to purchase the home.
For more information on becoming a Habitat Homeowner, please contact: info@habitat.mb.ca
(204) 233-5160 ext. 203.
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