Sumi, a resident of Duaripara informal settlement in Dhaka

Home Equals

Habitat for Humanity launches new global advocacy campaign to ensure equitable access to adequate homes for informal settlement residents

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Stories

Sani and her husband Ace finished building their house in West Java, Indonesia, with housing microfinance loans under a Habitat-KOMIDA partnership

We did it!

With access to housing microfinance, Sani and Ace finally built their home. Learn how Habitat’s partnership with Indonesian microfinance institution KOMIDA changes lives.

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Thushanthini outside her home built with compressed stabilized earth blocks in Sri Lanka

New chapter in life

Through the EU-funded “Homes not Houses” project completed in June 2021, Sri Lankan families are building better lives.

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Homeowner Selvam (center) with her mother-in-law Vadivelu and her mother Anandamma at the door of her house in Sri Lanka

The home makers

Through the European Union-funded “Homes not Houses” project, conflict-affected Sri Lankan families are able to cope in a time of pandemic and look to the future

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News

Beguntila informal settlement in Dhaka

Up to 10.5% increase in GDP possible in some countries

May 16, 2023

Improving housing at a large scale in slums and other informal settlements can have substantial economic and human development gains, according to a first-of-its kind report released by Habitat for Humanity and its research partner, the International Institute for Environment and Development, or IIED.

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