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Winners

Read about hundreds of award winning housing projects from across the globe, or use the filter tools to narrow your search by year, region, theme and more. Or display all winners since 1986.

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This database contains information on practical and innovative solutions to current housing problems throughout the world.

Initiated in 1985, the annual World Habitat Awards competition attracts projects which provide an outstanding contribution to people’s living conditions in a variety of contexts.

Details of the winning projects from each year are included in this database.

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Champlain Housing Trust

2008 Winner | United States of America

Community-based Organisation (CBO)
Scale: City / Town
Theme: Housing finance and affordability

Preventing Typhoon Damage to Housing, Central Viet Nam

2008 Winner | Viet Nam

Non-governmental organisation (NGO)
Scale: National
Theme: Capacity building

Monteagudo Housing Project

2008 Finalist | Argentina

Community-based Organisation (CBO)
Scale: Local / Neighbourhood
Theme: Income generation

‘Habitat para la Mujer’ – the Maria Auxiliadora Community

2008 Finalist | Bolivia

Community-based Organisation (CBO)
Scale: Local / Neighbourhood
Theme: Gender issues in housing

Sustainable Land Tenure Regularisation as an Instrument for Social Transformation

2008 Finalist | Brazil

Private Sector
Scale: National
Theme: Informal settlements/slums

Streets to Homes

2008 Finalist | Canada

Government, Local or Provincial/State
Scale: City / Town
Theme: Homelessness

Sustainable Housing Europe (SHE) – Moving from Extraordinary to Ordinary

2008 Finalist | Italy

Non-governmental organisation (NGO)
Scale: Regional
Theme: Environmentally responsible housing

Cheap and Clean Electric House Heating for the Poor in Bishkek

2008 Finalist | Kyrgyzstan

Non-governmental organisation (NGO)
Scale: City / Town
Theme: Building materials and technologies

Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia

2008 Finalist | Namibia

Community-based Organisation (CBO)
Scale: National
Theme: Community participation

De Dichterlijke Vrijheid (DDV)

2008 Finalist | Netherlands

Government, Local or Provincial/State
Scale: Local / Neighbourhood
Theme: Housing finance and affordability