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Residential energy efficiency: A key to a more sustainable future

Residential energy efficiency is driven by the need to address energy poverty, which affects over 40 million people across the EU, particularly the elderly and low-income households, and remains a significant barrier to achieving a more sustainable future for all.

Celebrating International Romani Day in North Macedonia

Over half of Roma families experience housing deprivation across the European Union. “Being part of Habitat Macedonia’s project, at first for the legalization of our home, and then for its refurbishment, gave us hope that we can raise our children in decent conditions.”

Closing the housing gender gap one microloan at a time

Enida, 30, was born just before the outbreak of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She grew up in a one-room household on a hilltop of Baščaršija, one of the oldest neighborhoods of Sarajevo, with her brother and parents. For 23 years, the family occupied a 25 square meter space with one window and no dedicated bathroom nor kitchen.

Ukrainian family in their apartment in Poland

Habitat's response to the Ukrainian crisis

Habitat’s response to this crisis meets affected families where they are, supporting their short-, mid- and long-term housing needs to achieve stability and recovery.

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Energy poverty: effects on development, society, and environment

Despite the fact energy is the engine of civilization, nowadays access to adequate and affordable sources is not equally distributed on the planet.

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Affordable housing in developing countries

Housing is one of the basic human needs: the World Health Organization defined it as a “residential environment which includes, in addition to the physical structure that man uses for shelter, all necessary services, facilities, equipment and devices needed or desired for the physical and mental health and social well-being of the family”.

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Daddy, what is war?

“My son often asks: daddy, what is war? But how do you explain to a child what war is and why it started? Neither do I understand why this had to happen. What I do know, is that I didn’t want my family to experience any more of it. So we left.”

Global summit gathers top sheltertech startups and scaleups, with eyes to transform the affordable housing sector

February 24, 2023

Sheltertech startups and scaleups were the talk of the town today at the ShelterTech Global Summit, taking place for the first time in Johannesburg, South Africa. As the culmination of the sub-Saharan Africa accelerator program by global non- profit organization Habitat for Humanity, the event saw a resounding call to action for the advancement of sheltertech innovations to address the growing demand for affordable and sustainable housing products and services.

HFHI statement on earthquakes in Turkey and Syria

February 06, 2023

Habitat for Humanity International released statement in response to today’s deadly earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.

New partnership to advance housing microfinance solutions to the energy transition in Bosnia and Herzegovina

February 01, 2023

Habitat for Humanity International has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Association of Microfinance organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, or AMFI B&H, to advance housing finance solutions and engage households in support of the energy transition and climate change mitigation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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