jacksonville founder nine housing visionaries headquarters jacksonville florida area served duval key people mary kay o rourke president & ceo services build and provide affordable housing slogan building communities together website www.habijax.org habijax of jacksonville florida is the largest of the 1 600 affiliates of habitat for humanity international hfh in the united states . 1 habijax was named the 8th largest homebuilder in the united states by builder magazine for 2009 . 2 the program builds simple decent and affordable housing using volunteer labor and sells them at no profit with no interest charged on the 25 year mortgage . habijax completed their 1 500th home in 2007 and 2008 marked 20 years of service to the jacksonville community . 3 contents 1 local cooperation 2 fairway oaks 3 references 4 external links local cooperation edit habijax has a good working relationship with the jacksonville housing authority and many local businesses & organizations contribute to the program ; their employees & members volunteer in the actual building . companies include jea jacksonville jaguars stein mart everbank northeast florida builders association blue cross and blue shield of florida swisher international group and fidelity national financial . faith based sponsors include coalitions from episcopal baptist methodist presbyterian lutheran and catholic churches . even u.s. navy sailors volunteer one day each week while their ship is in port . 4 fairway oaks edit the jimmy carter work project constructed the fairway oaks community of 85 single family homes in 17 days . the former president and his wife roselyn were joined by former housing secretary jack kemp habitat founders linda and millard fuller jaguars owners delores and wayne weaver and mayor john delaney who worked with local volunteers in september 2000 . 5 on january 25 2002 during a visit to the fairway oaks habijax site in north jacksonville the secretary of the u.s. department of housing and urban development mel martinez said sweat equity programs like habitat for humanity help more and more low income families open the door to homeownership . 6 some residents of the fairway oaks development have subsequently complained of health problems . part of the development was constructed over a landfill with one resident finding layers of garbage under his kitchen floorboards . other residents allege poor construction . many residents have taken legal action and habijax is dealing with about 30 complaints from homeowners . 7 however it is not clear whether the issues are due to lack of maintenance or substandard construction . 7 a habitat for humanity volunteer commented many of our new home owners do not understand the difference between renting and owning . we now have a class on the responsibilities of home ownership . we teach them about home maintenance and repair ; it works . one fairway oaks resident diennal fields insisted that some owners don t know how to take care of their homes it s simple stuff if there is mildew don t get a lawyer get a bottle of bleach . 7 references edit spears angela 1 first coast news january 4 2006 habijax building new community on the northside harding abel habitat for humanity now one of nation s ten largest homebuilders florida times union july 3 2010 2 sustainabuild website january 4 2008 2008 women build habijax and breaking ground 3 mayport mirror august 2 2006 uss gettysburg teams up with habijax schoettler jim 4 florida times union september 14 2000 habijax volunteers raise walls and hopes ; carter feels spirit of equality love in habijax work 5 habitat for humanity international website hud secretary commends habitat for humanity s jacksonville partnership a b c harlow john 6 the times january 4 2009 charity homes built by hollywood start to crumble external links edit habijax habitat for humanity jacksonville official website habitat for humanity international official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title habijax & oldid 647239655 categories 1988 establishments in floridaorganizations based in floridanon profit organizations based in jacksonville floridahomelessness charitiesorganizations established in 1988habitat for humanity navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 15 february 2015 at 12 48 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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