History Overview (Text-only) 1965-1976 1977-1983 1984-1989 1990-1992 1993-1995 1996-1997 1998-2000 Home Get Involved Where We Build How It Works True Stories

Thousands of students participate in the Collegiate Challenge each year, using their school breaks to build houses with Habitat affiliates around the world. W.A.T.C.H. (Women Accepting The Challenge of Housing) and other all-women groups are building more Habitat houses every year. After the 1992 hurricane, the Miami Herald headline said it all: "Tally: Habitat 27, Andrew 0." 1990 -- The first cross-border Jimmy Carter Work Project is held in Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, Calif. 1990 -- Abilene, Texas, becomes Habitat's 500th U.S. affiliate. 1990 -- Millard and Linda Fuller's book, The Excitement is Building, is published. 1990 -- Bo and Emma Johnson, the first housing partners at Koinonia, pay off their mortgage. 1990 -- The first overseas Campus Chapter is formed at the University of Technology in Lae, Papua New Guinea. 1991 -- Habitat's 10,000th house is built. Ernestine Higgins in Atlanta, Ga., is the proud homeowner. 1991 -- HFHI's 15th anniversary is held in Columbus, Ohio. 1991 -- Habitat's first all-women-built house is completed in Charlotte, N.C. 1992 -- Hurricane Andrew strikes south Florida -- all 27 Habitat houses in the Miami, Florida, area survive. 1992 -- The first Native American affiliate is approved. There is a desperate need for decent housing throughout America's Indian reservations, and HFHI's Native Peoples Initiative is partnering with multiple tribes. 1992 -- The Sumter County Initiative begins with the goal to eliminate poverty housing in Americus and Sumter County, Ga., by the year 2000. 1992 -- Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates Bill Clinton and Al Gore help build a Habitat house in Atlanta, Ga.