
Y-Foundation
A social enterprise that specialises in housing homeless people; Y-Foundation has played a leading role in a p…

Liter of Light
2014 Winner | Philippines
Liter of Light uses cheap, readily available materials to provide high quality lighting to homes in poor commu…

Upgrading of Audi União Shantytown: Curitiba
This upgrading project has been carried out in Audi União, one of largest and poorest squatter settlements in …

Rural Habitat Improvements
2014 Finalist | El Salvador
A project led by FUNDASAL (the Salvadoran Foundation for Development and Low-cost Housing) to improve health a…

Indigenous people building their homes
Indigenous communities in the Sierra Norte de Puebla region in Mexico live in extreme poverty in houses that a…

Build Back Safer with Traditional Construction Methods
848,000 houses were destroyed and 9.7 million people affected by severe floods in western Pakistan in 2011. Th…

Nochlezhka
Nochlezhka is an independent charity that provides a wide range of services to, and advocates on behalf of, ho…

Social Inclusion and Improvement of Living Conditions for Roma
The Roma are among the most vulnerable communities in Europe with a long history of persecution and discrimina…

Social Housing in Supportive Environments (SHSE)
As a result of the 1990s wars, Serbia has the highest number of refugees and internally displaced people in Eu…

Community-Led Infrastructure Finance Facility (CLIFF)
CLIFF starts from the philosophy that the poor are worthy of investment. Instead of giving one-off grants, CLI…