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Tanzania Mortgage Refinance Company (TMRC) signed a memorandum of understanding with Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) in August 2022 to engage in an effort to promote the ability of TMRC in unpacking the potential of Housing Microfinance (HMF) in Tanzania and supporting TMRC to develop and expand its commercial relationships with low-income consumers as a means of increasing their access to affordable and quality housing solutions, a first step in the organizations’ joint-effort to expand and strengthen the low-income housing finance sector in Tanzania.

In the heart of Bytom, a historic 19th-century tenement building on Piekarska Street, Poland, has been given a new life. Long abandoned and deteriorating, the building has been transformed into four warm, safe, and modern apartments, offering families—including Ukrainian refugees and local residents—a chance to call this central Silesian city home. What was once a vacant, neglected property is now a symbol of hope, cooperation, and sustainable urban regeneration. It is proof that solving Europe’s housing crisis does not always require new construction—sometimes it’s about breathing new life into what already exists.

Poland’s housing challenge is often framed as a problem of shortage. Yet across the country, thousands of buildings stand empty or underused—many of them publicly owned—while access to affordable housing remains out of reach for low-income households and vulnerable groups. This contradiction lies at the center of a new research (August 2025) study exploring how non-residential vacancies could become part of the solution.

Nuestros voluntarios son el corazón y las manos de nuestra misión, la fuerza humana que hace posible que miles de familias en Latinoamérica y el Caribe tengan un lugar digno para vivir; ese compromiso es una fuerza colectiva que mueve comunidades enteras.

We are grateful to our corporate partners for their continuous support of our mission as well as for offering consumers opportunities to give back and further our global efforts to help families build or improve a place to call home.

Desde Hábitat para la Humanidad acompañamos el 7° Foro Nacional de Agua y Saneamiento, un espacio liderado junto al OCASH con apoyo de UNICEF, donde presentamos evidencias, innovaciones y políticas clave que pueden transformar la realidad de miles de familias.