BAMBOO: Redefined.

With partnership and community process, the federation has once again redefined urban poor housing using alternative construction technologies: Treated/Engineered BAMBOO and Interlocking Compressed Earth Blocks (ICEB)

Through the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP) the Homeless People's Federation has forged a partnership with the Hilti Foundation whose advocacy and commitment for the promotion and use of alternative and sustainable building technologies is equally strong with that of the federation. 

The recognition by the federation about the potential of bamboo as an affordable and sustainable alternative building technology has began ever since its initial project implementation of its community-managed housing project in San Isidro, Jaro, Iloilo City, Philippines.

Front View: This single-storey duplex house is worth P85,000 (70,000 for
 the building materials and 15,000 labor cost)

This housing unit's foundation work matches that of the two-storey house
so that whenever the owner decides to make improvements like building a
second floor, they can freely do so. 

 It has initially utilized treated bamboo to reduce cost of its seventy thousand worth-housing unit for its lowest income housing participants.

Side View

Back View

These three bamboo houses were also built with one of the HPFPI communities
in Bicol. These houses which was built with the assistance of Hilti Foundation
was designed and built to withstand typhoon. Currently the project is on its
pilot and testing phase.