Sleeping Giant Build

Sleeping Giant Build is a community based organization partnering with local businesses, religious organizations, civic groups, individuals and our partner families to eliminate poverty housing in the greater New Haven area. Through volunteer labor and donations of money and materials, Habitat builds and rehabilitates simple, decent houses with the help of the homeowner (partner) families. Habitat is not a giveaway program. Habitat houses are sold to partner families at no profit and financed with affordable loans. In addition to a down payment and the monthly mortgage payments, homeowners are required to invest hundreds of hours of their own labor — sweat equity — into building their Habitat house and the houses of others.