
Champlain Housing Trust
2008 Winner | United States of America
Established in Burlington, Vermont in 1984, the Champlain Housing Trust (CHT) was an early pioneer of the comm…

Preventing Typhoon Damage to Housing, Central Viet Nam
This Development Workshop France (DWF) programme has worked over many years with families and local government…

Monteagudo Housing Project
Complejo Monteagudo is a community-led and managed housing project involving the mutual-help construction of 3…

‘Habitat para la Mujer’ – the Maria Auxiliadora Community
This community initiated and managed project involves a community land trust-style model of collective land ow…

Sustainable Land Tenure Regularisation as an Instrument for Social Transformation
The work of Terra Nova Regularizações Fundiárias involves land tenure regularisation and the upgrading of info…

Streets to Homes
Based on a ‘housing first’ strategy, this municipal programme aims to end rather than manage street homelessne…

Sustainable Housing Europe (SHE) – Moving from Extraordinary to Ordinary
This European project represents an example of a public-private partnership between social housing organisatio…

Cheap and Clean Electric House Heating for the Poor in Bishkek
2008 Finalist | Kyrgyzstan
Developed by Habitat Kyrgyzstan Foundation, this housing project provides affordable, environmentally-sustaina…

Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia
Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia (SDFN) is a network of community-led savings groups working incrementally…

De Dichterlijke Vrijheid (DDV)
2008 Finalist | Netherlands
In order to address the severe social and economic problems in the Spangen neighbourhood of the city, Rotterda…