Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter volunteered for Habitat for Humanity for more than 35 years in 14 countries on more than 4,300 homes.

The faith-based nonprofit organization is dedicated to eliminating substandard housing and homelessness worldwide.

Habitat for Humanity-Coosa Valley is now accepting applications for homeownership for families in Floyd, Chattooga, and Polk counties.

Jimmy Carter’s long public goodbye began in Georgia, where the 39th U.S. president’s life started more than 100 years ago

Article continues after... Begun in 1976 by Millard and Linda Fuller and based in Carter’s home state of Georgia, Habitat for Humanity facilitates home improvements for low-income and destitute ...

Carter’s work for the housing advocacy group began in Georgia, when Habitat’s original founders, Millard and Linda Fuller, approached the president and former first lady Rosalynn Smith Carter with the idea of empowering people to commit their own labor to build their homes — with the help of an army of volunteers.

Former President Jimmy Carter — who died Dec. 29 and was laid to rest Thursday in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, after a state funeral in Washington, D.C. — wore

Paul Biebel was a Vermont farm boy who became a house builder. Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer from Georgia who became president. Toward the end of an insufferably hot day outside Tijuana, Carter sat on an upturned plastic drywall bucket on the porch of an unfinished house, inviting Biebel to sit on an identical bucket next to him.

The San Antonio affiliate of Habitat for Humanity, one of the oldest and most active chapters in the nearly 50 years of the global affordable-housing network, is raising funds for a “tribute home” to be built this year in memory of President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn.

he is being remembered for his decades-long work with Habitat for Humanity. “The Carters got involved with Habitat in March of 1984 by visiting Americus, Georgia, which is where Habitat was founded,” Tamara Dourney, the executive director of Pickens ...