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During their eventual reconciliation, the couple decided to sell their possessions, donate the proceeds and move to Koinonia Farm, a Christian commune in Americus, Ga. It was there that they conceived their first ideas about building homes with no-interest mortgages for the poor. The family packed up for Mbandaka, Zaïre (now Democratic Republic of Congo), in 1973 to develop a program there...
...returning to Americus in 1976, the couple founded Habitat for Humanity, which with the help of volunteers and future occupants has built nearly 1.5 million no-interest homes worldwide. Fuller separated from Habitat in 2005, forming the similarly tasked Fuller Center for Housing...