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Habitat for Humanity’s new report, “Informal Settlement Improvements and Women’s Health,” reveals that improving housing in informal settlements promotes positive health outcomes for women and entire communities, advancing sustainable development.

Ahead of the 2025 Group of Seven (G7) Summit, a groundbreaking new report from Habitat for Humanity International reveals that improving housing conditions in informal settlements has the power to enhance women’s health outcomes. 

Habitat for Humanity’s new report found that—within the first year—key improvements in informal settlement housing can improve the health of women by preventing illness and incidents of gender-based violence.

Mauk, Indonesia, is home to 90,000 people, with an average of four to five individuals per household. Around 35,000 live in extreme poverty. This project will help build decent, climate-resilient housing to help improve the lives of people living in extremely poor conditions. 

Habitat currently works in more than 70 countries around the world. Browse our country profiles and learn more about our work to help families build strength and stability.

Since 1999, Whirlpool Corp. has supported Habitat for Humanity to help improve and broaden the ways Habitat can assist more families to achieve housing stability. 

You can travel with Habitat to build homes, communities and hope. 

Find local Habitat for Humanity organizations and ReStores near you.

When you co-fund a project, you help transform lives. By building housing, we build beyond the physical homes: adequate living conditions have a powerful impact on the livelihoods, health, education and more of households and communities.