Editing Delta Sigma Theta (section)

====Habitat for Humanity====

Delta Sigma Theta was the first national African-American organization to collaborate with [[Habitat for Humanity]] International in 1992, during National President Bertha Roddey's administration.<ref name="habitat">{{cite web| url=https://www.msu.edu/~smithn21/UBT/DST.htm| title=Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc|publisher=Michigan State University – National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc.| access-date=December 15, 2008}}</ref> Habitat for Humanity builds and rehabilitates homes with the help of selected homeowners, volunteer labor, management expertise, and tax-deductible donations of money and materials.<ref name="habitat2">{{cite web| url=http://www.brown.edu/Students/Delta_Sigma_Theta/natprograms.htm| title=Delta Habitat for Humanity| publisher=Lambda Iota Chapter – Delta Sigma Theta Sorority| access-date=December 15, 2008| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090124121932/http://www.brown.edu/Students/Delta_Sigma_Theta/natprograms.htm| archive-date=January 24, 2009| df=mdy-all}}</ref> Houses are sold to families without profit, and no-interest mortgages are issued over a fixed period.<ref name="habitat2" /> Between 1992 and 1994, Delta Sigma Theta and Habitat for Humanity built twenty-two homes throughout the United States.<ref name="habitat" /> In 1996, sorority members and supporters traveled to Ghana, where they built forty Delta Habitat for Humanity homes.<ref name="habitat2" />