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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Question -- What are the requirements for becoming a Habitat Homeowner?

ANSWER: The Topeka Habitat for Humanity program has the following requirements:  

1)  You must have a minimum of $16,000 a year income and a maximum of $30,000, and you must have worked at your job for a minimum of 1 year.  

2)  No bankruptcies in the past year and no SRS liens against you.  

3)  We do credit checks.  We know that people have bills, but we look for a pattern of paying regularly on the bills.  

4)  We do background checks so that our homeowners will be good neighbors.  

5)  A person must be willing to "partner" with Habitat and put in 300 hours of sweat equity on their own home or someone elses.

As a general rule, we build small three bedroom, one bath homes. One of our goals is to improve neighborhoods so we often build in lower income neighborhoods.    Habitat builds using volunteer labor as much as possible, and we sell our homes on no interest loans, keeping the monthly payments at about $350-$450, which includes taxes and insurance.  

If you need more information call Topeka Habitat at (785) 235-2616