World Habitat Awards Grant

The World Habitat Awards celebrate innovative housing solutions that improve living conditions worldwide. Open to diverse organizations, the awards recognize projects that focus on affordable housing, climate action, and community collaboration. Gold Award winners receive £10,000 and international recognition, with finalists showcasing exceptional work in housing access. The awards aim to promote diversity, equality, and inclusion in housing initiatives. Projects must be completed within the last ten years to qualify, ensuring relevance and impact.

Our World Habitat Awards recognise and highlight innovative, outstanding and sometimes revolutionary housing ideas, projects and programmes from across the world.
More than 360 outstanding World Habitat Awards projects have been recognised over the years, demonstrating substantial, lasting improvements in living conditions.
We want to hear about projects from around the world that:
focus on affordable and adequate housing;have taken action to address the climate emergency;are in progress or have been completed in the last ten years; are taking steps to promote diversity, equality and inclusion; and have been designed and/ or delivered in close collaboration with the residents/ local community
Prize
As well as international recognition, a prize of £10,000 is made to each of the two Gold Award winning projects.
Trophies are also presented to the Gold Award winning projects and travel and accommodation costs are met for one representative of each project to attend the awards ceremony.
Between eight and twelve projects that demonstrate exceptional work in providing or promoting access to adequate housing are finalists each year.

Eligibility

Any type of organisation working in the field of housing can enter the competition.

Ineligibility

Please note that projects at design/ prototype/ planning stage or completed over ten years ago will not be considered.