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Read more stories about the impact of decent housing on people’s lives in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Dwellers of Habib Ayad House in Sakakrya village are not able to sleep at the same time because of overcrowding. While half of them are sleeping at night, the other half go to work in bakeries.

Global housing deficit is estimated to swell to 1.6 billion by 2025. Helping housing markets to work better for low-income people can reduce it. We drive development of new affordable solutions. 

Around 50 families, approximately 240 people, in Saptari district in Nepal will benefit from the Habitat for Humanity and The Arab Gulf Program for Development (AGFUND) partnership.

Sangara village residents in Tanzania pioneer a new solution that allows them to expand their water network. Their water points now pump water by solar energy.

When residents from the Dida-Yaokro and Chickwawa communities constructed toilets, their health improved, the school attendance increased and the environment got cleaner. 

Life had been unimaginably hard after Lucy’s mother died nine years ago. Her dad had died a year earlier. Lucy, only in the seventh grade at the time, quit school to raise her younger brothers - Bornface and Gift.

Sixty-five percent of the Ugandan population is made up of young people. Like Susan, they have enormous potential. Habitat helps them to develop their talents.

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

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”.