Where We Build

Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity (AAHH) builds and sells homes to families in need in Buncombe County.  We just finished our Enka Hills neighborhood of 54 homes and have returned to Woodland Court, also in West Asheville.  The Woodland Court neighborhood will be home to 22 families when it is complete in 2011.

Asheville Area Habitat tithes house-for-house.  That means that for the 17 houses we build in Buncombe County this year, we will provide the funds to build 17 Habitat houses across five other countries - Guatemala, Mozambique, Egypt, Vietnam and  Bangladesh. 

“Safe and decent shelter is a basic human need that knows no geographic boundaries. Here in Buncombe County and in partnership with five other countries, we strive to eliminate substandard housing,” said Lew Kraus, Executive Director of Asheville Area Habitat.

In October 2008, a team of 14 AAHH volunteers and staffers spent 10 days in Panajachel, Guatemala building Habitat homes there. Asheville Area Habitat has tithed to Guatemala for many years; this is the first time the affiliate sent a work team to the country.  To see photos from this service trip, please click here.  Asheville Area Habitat returned in October (2009) with another work team.