Human-centered design is a creative problem-solving approach that puts the customer or beneficiary at the center and leads to innovative solutions that meet their needs.

By understanding current regional market dynamics, startups can incorporate the preferences, necessities and financial capabilities of this segment in their business models.

This masterclass introduces typical housing finance sources for low-income households in the region, sharing key trends, challenges and opportunities in the housing finance ecosystem.

This masterclass features the struggles faced by low-income households in building and repairing homes in the Philippines, and how the startup community can play a key role in piloting new market approaches.

This masterclass showcases practical ways in which startups can e­ffectively measure both the business and the social impact of their product or service.

La empresa Billion Bricks ha creado un modelo de casa prefabricada que resulta completamente eficiente.

Emprendedora social y cofundadora de Tierra Grata, innovación social que busca proveer con saneamiento, agua y energía a comunidades vulnerables con estos servicios insatisfechos.

In this presentation, part of the affordable housing track of Brigade REAP’s accelerator program in India, Habitat’s Terwilliger Center Jyoti Patel talks about impact investing and sustainability in the housing sector.

Habitat for Humanity’s Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter was one of the first players to recognize and invest in opportunities for affordable housing innovation through ShelterTech.