Desde el 2015, la Fundación Tierra Grata ha buscado soluciones amigables con el medio ambiente para las comunidades que carecen de acceso a los servicios básicos de luz, agua y saneamiento.

“Rockstars de innovación en vivienda” reúne historias de éxito que además de inspirar y sensibilizar en temas de innovación social y acceso a la vivienda, relatan el paso a paso del proceso creativo de cada proyecto para solucionar una problemática de vivienda en distintas localidades. El objetivo es motivar a emprendedores y empresas a involucrarse en la causa de la vivienda digna con sus proyectos, en los cuales puedan innovar y proponer soluciones que disminuyan el déficit que existe en la región.

Startups de Sudamérica completaron el proceso de aceleración que incluyó diálogos con inversionistas y mentorías con expertos de corporaciones mundiales.

Rockstars of Innovation in Housing, released by ESMEX and Habitat’s Terwilliger Center, highlights the innovative solutions to Latin America’s housing challenges. The e-book brings together six success stories that both inspire and offer step-by-step models for the creative process each project took to solve a specific housing challenge. 

Habitat for Humanity partnered with Engineering for Change to research strategies and technologies that can improve circularity in Kenya’s housing sector. Guided by the ReSOLVE Framework and drawing on secondary research as well as 12 expert interviews, the report makes recommendations in three categories: (1) Circularity within the construction value chain, (2) Natural Construction Materials, and (3) Enablers and Barriers to Circularity.

Habitat for Humanity partnered with Engineering for Change to research strategies and technologies that can improve circularity in Mexico’s housing sector.

Recently, Habitat for Humanity International through its Shelter Venture Fund invested $411,000 in Tvasta Manufacturing Solutions Ltd. to increase production of affordable 3D-printed homes in India.

Brigade REAP has announced its ‘Cohort 10’, with a new track on ‘affordable housing,’ in partnership with Habitat for Humanity’s Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter.

Habitat for Humanity invites innovators and disruptors in the affordable housing sector to submit sustainable and practical solutions to vie for the “Innovation Awards.”