Construction Schedule

MONDAY, THURSDAY, AND SATURDAY

7:30 AM -11:30 AM

 CONSTRUCTION

A Habitat house in Oconee County costs approximately $140,000 - $160,000 each.  It is usually 1,150 to 1,350 square feet in size and has 3 to 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, a living room, kitchen, and dining area, and detached storage shed. Construction is energy-efficient and meets all required codes and standards. Volunteers and prospective families provide most of the labor; individual and corporate donors provide money and materials. Partner families invest hundreds of hours of labor - sweat equity - into building their homes and the homes of others or working in our Resale Store. 

  • After a $1,000 down payment, the owner or owners repay the cost of housing materials, sub-contracts, and land over a 30-year period. NO PROFIT is added to the cost of the house, and NO INTEREST is charged to the home purchaser. Mortgage payments go into a revolving fund that is used to build more houses.

LANDSCAPING

  • Volunteers are needed for landscaping work on Oconee County Habitat for Humanity homes.

 

CONSTRUCTION UPDATES:

  • 2024:  Five homes are scheduled to be completed in 2024, including homes on Sunshine Drive, Sherwood, and in Walhalla. Work started on infrastructure for a new neighborhood in West Union.

  • 2023:  Seven homes were completed in 2023, including homes on Sunshine Drive, Overbrook, and Coleman Street.  A new Habitat community, consisting of five houses, was started in Walhalla off of S. Catherine Street.

  • 2022:  The final homes in Phase I of West Union were completed.  Work continued on Sunshine Drive in Seneca with the completion of one home and progress on five more homes.  Work also continued on houses on Coleman and Overbrook.

  • 2021: While construction work continued in West Union, Work began in May on Sunshine Drive in Mt. Nebo Estates, Seneca. Additionally, Habitat contracted with a General Contractor to build three homes south of downtown Seneca to help alleviate our backlog and work was begun on Overbrook Drive and Coleman Street. Two additional lots on Sunshine were cleared by year’s end.

  • 2020: Construction in West Union continued with the completion of four homes on Eastpointe Drive and the start of two homes on Pointe Place in our West Union community.

  • 2019: Construction continued on four homes in West Union on Eastpointe Drive.  OCHFH completed the rehab of a house on Zion Hill Road in Mt. Nebo Estates.

  • 2018: We completed the Butler School Road community and began building a 14-house community in West Union. Eight homes have been completed and are occupied, and another five homes are in various stages of completion. We expect to complete this community in 2021.