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2023 Bronze | Latin America
In Latin America, 120 million people live in informal settlements and/or inadequate housing conditions, and 70…
Renta Tu Casa
In Mexico, millions of homes stand empty. They are the legacy of a shift in housing policy in the 1990s, throu…
Módulo Sanitario
Sanitation is a growing problem in Argentina, where six million people (almost one-in-seven of the population)…
Post-earthquake housing reconstruction
In September 2017, Mexico was shaken by two powerful earthquakes. The first occurred on 7 September in the Pac…
Healthy Homes for Humanity
When Guatemala’s 36-year civil war ended in 1996, the country was left fragmented and its people subject…
Promoting local building cultures in Haiti
In January 2010, a devastating earthquake shook the Caribbean nation of Haiti to its core. The disaster and su…
How the community rescued the historic centre of San Salvador
2017 Finalist | El Salvador
Many historic town and city centres in El Salvador have suffered years of neglect and a lack of investment. H…
From Disaster to Dignity
2017 Finalist | El Salvador
In 1998, a group of 110 women started ACAMS (Asociación Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito Mujeres Solidarias, T…
Intercultural Neighbourhood
The Intercultural Neighbourhood is within an area of land of approximately 400 hectares known as Plot 27. It …
Resilient Social Housing
The 2010 earthquake and tsunami destroyed 11,400 buildings on the Chilean coast – shattering people’s houses …