House For All

The initiatives aim is to provide one of the basic human needs- shelter. Using principles of a circular economy, the initiative uses local materials (low carbon) and creates employment and sustainable development for the region.

By 2025, more than 1.6 billion people around the world will lack access to affordable, adequate and secure housing. 40 % of the areas that need to be urban by 2030 do not yet exist.As the global population increases, urban areas around the world will boom, and that means more and more buildings are needed and will be built. The UN Desa, 2017 report predicts that by 2050, the global population will increase by 2.2 billion people and 70% will dwell in cities.

Currently, buildings and construction industry amount for nearly 40% of global CO2 emissions. Unless we rethink the built environment, our cities will become increasingly unsustainable, un-affordable, and socially unequal.

Due to multi-stakeholder involvement and broadness of the topic, there are many gaps in the housing sector. There is an urgent need for representatives of science, civil society, the private and the public sector who design and implement solutions to end global homelessness to interact properly with each other in order to build sustainable housing solutions.