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Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Partner: TECHO
Location & Region: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru
SAA Impact System: Human Settlements & Infrastructure
Impact: 65 resilient homes built in 6 countries, 183 people housed, 650 people mobilized and engaged through 22 resilience labs, 1 million people housed by 2030
Across Latin America, millions of families live in informal settlements where precarious housing leaves them vulnerable to climate shocks. Homes made of fragile materials struggle to withstand floods, heatwaves, or heavy rains, putting residents’ health, safety, and livelihoods at risk. These families face a double predicament – while they are on the frontline of climate impacts, they are also excluded from affordable housing solutions, as high construction costs price them out of the formal market. The result is a cycle of risk and inequality, where poverty and climate vulnerability reinforce one another.
A Race to Resilience partner, TECHO is tackling this challenge by improving housing and community developments in low-income neighbourhoods across Latin America and the Caribbean. TECHO’s Resilient Housing Project is providing homes that are designed to withstand extreme weather while enhancing comfort and energy efficiency – and crucially without the price tag that normally comes with building new climate-proof homes.
Besides housing development, a major part of the operation is about bringing communities together and involving them in the process. Through ‘resilience labs’, local residents collaborate with engineers, architects, and community leaders to test designs and adapt them to specific contexts.
By generating evidence of what works and scaling innovations across multiple contexts, the organization hopes to position resilient housing as a new standard for low-income communities – demonstrating that safe, sustainable housing is not a privilege, but a right.
To date, TECHO has constructed 65 resilient homes in six countries, directly benefiting 183 people with safe, climate-proof housing. More than 650 participants have taken part in 22 resilience labs, exploring practical responses to the housing and climate challenges they face.
By 2030, TECHO hopes to reach one million people across 18 Latin American and Caribbean countries with safe, resilient housing.
Learn more about TECHO and the project here.
Race to Resilience
The Race to Resilience is a global campaign working to strengthen the resilience of four billion people to climate risk by 2030. It achieves this through a network of partners supporting locally led work across key areas, including health, food, water, and livelihoods.
