Build Change

Build Change is the global leader in systems change for resilient housing. Our engineers, builders, coders, policy advocates, and lending partners are providing urgently needed housing solutions in the world’s most disaster-prone countries. Shiftin e world’s most disaster-prone countries. Shifting power to families since 2004, Build Change has safeguarded over $4.7 billion in housing infrastructure assets across Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia-Pacific, improving the lives of over 1.17 million people by building new or retrofitting more than 230,000 buildings, at the cost of $58 per safer person. To greatly reduce deaths, injuries and economic losses caused by housing and school collapses due to earthquakes, extreme weather, and fires. Every Home is Disaster-Resilient. Build Change is an award-winning non-profit social innovator and systems change catalyst that develops and scales societal solutions to overcome three critical barriers to the adoption of disaster-resilient housing: people/political will, money, and technology. Build Change puts the decision-making power, knowledge, and financing in the hands of the homeowner, particularly women. Build Change preserves existing homeownership by preventing the loss of what is often a family’s most valuable asset: their home. Build Change has safeguarded over $4 billion in housing infrastructure assets around the world. These assets belong to families in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific. In addition to protecting housing from loss, Build Change supports homeowners to formalize ownership of property and land, expand home businesses, and add rental units. Build Change is building a world where no one dies in earthquakes, windstorms, fires, or floods. We use our expertise combined with innovative technology to address gaps in the construction value chain to build disaster-resilient housing and change construction practice permanently. Use detailed housing subsector studies to determine the most cost-effective ways of building earthquake-resilient houses using materials and skills that are available through the local private sector. Empower the homeowners to choose their own layout and materials and manage their own construction with our technical assistance, by providing a range of solutions appropriate for different income levels, family size, culture, and climate. Leverage the knowledge and skills of the best engineers and architects in the world – both in the US and worldwide – to ensure that the very best designs and design thinking are applied to the reconstruction efforts while sticking to a carefully compiled list of criteria for local sustainability and acceptance. ...view more