About Us

Mission
Our mission is to create partnerships in South Collin County to provide decent, affordable homes for deserving families while building foundations for community.  Habitat for Humanity of South Collin County (HfH-SCC) is an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International.
 
How can there be a need for housing in wealthy Collin County?
 
Habitat for Humanity of South Collin County's service area includes Plano, Allen, Trinity Park, Lucas, Wylie, Murphy, Parker, Lowry Crossing, Fairview, Saint Paul, and their rural areas - approximately 400 square miles.
 
This area's population of 659,457 has the highest median income ($74,333) of any county in Texas.  In fact, Collin County has the 17th highest median income in the US (2004 US census figures).
 
And yet, approximately 36,000 families in the county have incomes below $45,000 per year, and 31% of renters in our area pay more than 30% of their annual income for rent. 5% of those persons live below the poverty level as defined in the US census. Click here (pdf).
 
In 2011, Habitat acquired some Plano Housing Authority property on 11th Street just off of 75 Central Expressway.  This new 11th Street Development next to the Douglass Community in Plano will allow Habitat to transform 6 sixty-year old Plano Housing Authority residences into 10 beautiful new Habitat homes.  These 6 dilapidated buildings have been vacant for half dozen years and are real eye soars for the community.  This project means 10 new properties on the Collin County Property Tax role, but more importantly pride in the community and home-ownership for 10 deserving families.  These affordable homes will help families break the cycle of poverty housing by providing family stability, educational improvement and permanency of residence.  These families are more stable and are less prone to problems that are exacerbated and repeated by living in substandard housing.
 
In addition to the thousands of individual volunteers who have helped us over the last several years, we owe a huge thank you to the many organizations, churches and businesses who are our partners.
 
To keep up with what is happening with HfH-SCC, check our Current News page.
 

The territory we serve

We serve Plano, Allen, Trinity Park, Lucas, Wylie, Murphy, Parker, Lowry Crossing, Fairview, Saint Paul, and the rural areas of South Collin County, Texas.
 
A map of our territory is shown below: