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- What is Sweat Equity?Sweat equity hours are basically volunteer hours. They include work on the family’s house, other family houses, homewoner classes, money management classes, HFH office work, working at HFH events, providing meals or lunches for work crews, attending Building Committee meetings and meetings with Family Partners.
- How many hours of Sweat Equity are required?Each family is required to provide a minimum of 300-500 sweat equity hours.Family, extended family, friends and HFH Family Partners whom the homeowners recruit to help build their home may contribute up to 100 hours maximum toward the total requirement of sweat equity hours. (Work groups arranged by HFH are not considered eligible to provide sweat-equity hours.)