Habitat provides you with the coaching, education and support to be successful in your home buying journey. We can help you buy a home you love with a mortgage you can afford. Your options may include buying a home built or rehabbed by Habitat, or working with a realtor to buy a home on the open market.
All of the homes we currently have in production are filled.
We have some exciting new homeownership opportunities to announce later this year! Sign up below to be notified once we begin accepting applications for these new opportunities.
Home Tour
Brand new Milwaukee Habitat homes come in 3 & 4 bedroom styles. All homes come complete with brand new Whirlpool appliances, a home security system, and energy efficient windows. Depending on the type of property you qualify for and season when you’re approved, homeowners may be able make design specifications such as selecting siding color, counter-tops and style of flooring.
Benefits of Habitat Homeownership
- Typical mortgage payment: $600-$900/month
- Own your home
- Built brand new
- Energy efficient
- New appliances
- 3-4 bedrooms
- Minimal down payment
Location
Milwaukee Habitat is growing to help twice as many families become first-time homebuyers by 2028. Over the next five years our goal is to expand to consistently build or rehab more than 30 homes per year, on our way to at least 40 per year by 2028. In 2023, Milwaukee Habitat plans to build 30 new construction homes for first-time homebuyers and is expanding these builds to multiple neighborhoods including King Park, Harambee, and Midtown.
Basic Qualifications
- Be a first-time homebuyer
- Have a steady source of income
- Meet credit and income guidelines
- Have availability to complete sweat equity
| Household Income Guidelines | ||||||||||
| # of people in household | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Minimum | $19,850 | $22,650 | $25,500 | $28,300 | $32,470 | $37,190 | $41,910 | $46,630 | $51,350 | $56,070 |
| Maximum | $52,850 | $60,400 | $67,950 | $75,500 | $81,550 | $87,600 | $93,650 | $99,700 | $105,700 | $111,750 |
If you have questions please contact Mirella Reyes for more information: mreyes@milwaukeehabitat.org
We are pledged to the letter and spirit of the U.S. policy for the achievement of equal housing opportunity throughout the nation. We encourage and support an affirmative advertising and marketing program in which there are no barriers to obtaining housing because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin.
