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Although Habitat for Humanity is interested in the provision of permanent housing, its housing programs, construction methodologies and financing methods are flexibly designed to take advantage of any shelter or housing need, whether created by natural disaster, man-made conflict or debilitating poverty, to provide responsive transitional shelters and to use the emergency response as a pathway to the establishment of permanent housing built to Habitat standards.

Habitat’s preferred method of operation is to build transitional shelters which are on the same site as the intended permanent housing.  We strive to construct transitional shelter that functions as the core unit of the permanent house.  Under this approach, Habitat builds an emergency, transitional shelter which is fully SPHERE compliant and meets other donor requirements, but which is also designed to be a core component for a Habitat permanent house.

Patuakhali Cyclone Rehabilitation Project
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Habitat views shelters as components of settlements, and therefore works with communities to assure that its housing programs are acceptable to the community.  Habitat involves community leaders and homeowners in the planning, construction, operation and decision-making of a Habitat shelter/housing intervention.  As the transitional shelter phase moves into the permanent house effort, Habitat coordinates other settlement development aspects and other participant interventions (utilities, municipal services, roads, schools, clinics, etc.) to build community capacities and appropriate and sustainable communities of homeowners.

When this ideal situation is not possible, Habitat builds transitional shelter using methods and materials which will facilitate, or be re-cycled into, the building of the permanent house.

Patuakhali Cyclone Rehabilitation Project

In response to the devastation caused by Cyclone Sidr, Habitat Bangladesh is building homes in the Patuakhali District of southern Bangladesh.

For more information, please contact our Resource Development Manager.