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For nearly 40 years, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter worked with the Christian nonprofit Habitat for Humanity in 14 countries alongside more than 100,000 amateur builders. Habitat was founded in Americus, Georgia in 1976 by missionaries and self-made millionaires Millard and Linda Fuller. In 1984, Carter returned to New York with volunteers from his church to help renovate a six-story tenement building on East 6th Street -the first of the Carters’ annual housing missions. They traveled to more than two dozen cities, towns and tribal territories across the US. “Habitat is a lot more personally gratifying than just to sign a bill or appropriate money to take care of housing,” Carter said in 1989.