The Philippines is faced with dual challenges – an affordable housing shortage, along with frequent natural disasters. Finding solutions to building resilient, accessible, and affordable housing, then, is essential to long-term security and tenure for low-income residents. The Negros Occidental Impact 2025 (NOI25) began as a partnership between Habitat for Humanity and the Hilti Foundation, aimed at bringing the technology of disaster-resilient cement bamboo frame technology to scale, building 10,000 housing units in sustainable communities.
With a leadership coalition composed of twelve stakeholders, NOI25 has multi-sectoral support in its facilitation of an environment that supports low-income and informal access to decent and resilient housing options. The target beneficiaries are residents who live in informal housing, are low-income, and have a daily wage – but lack the financial capacity to buy or build housing on their own. These housing units are being built across thirty sites, with the pilot project in Silay City.
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Habitat for Humanity Philippines. (n.d.) The Negros Occidental Impact 2025.