1. Hult Global Case Challenge 2012
San Francisco
Schulich School of Business
York University

2. Constructing the Road Ahead
Target Growth Rate : 35%
for 10 years
Impacted
500,000 Homes

3. Issue and Recommendation
Core Issue:
The world’s poorest are unable to gain access to housing
improvement solutions.
Recommendation:
To leverage the strengths of community ties and
partnerships in order to increase the reach of housing
improvement solutions to the world’s poorest.

4. Situational Analysis
HFHI Affiliates Screen Internal:
families based on • Difficulty with the development of deep-rooted
predetermined selection relationships with partners
criteria.
• Current model based on:
– Ability of homeowners to repay mortgages
– Pull system
– HFHI uses future revenue streams as collateral
External:
• The poorest (BOP) do not have any collateral
Impossible to reach 50
million people in 10
years.

5. Strength of Social Network in the BoP
Instances of microfinance housing institutions already
tapping into this worldwide

6. Harnessing the Power of
Relationships
• Social Capital:
– value of social relations and the role of
cooperation and confidence to get collective or
economic results.

7. Implementation Flow Chart
Habitat for Humanity International
Identification of
communities Social Capital Firms
measurement
HFH Affiliate
identify
Construction Needs…
Corporate Microfinance Institutions
Partnerships &
Crowd Sourcing …Housing and Beyond
Community

8. Five Largest Urban Slums
• Neza-Chalco-Itza – Mexico ( 4 Million)
• Orangi Town – Pakistan ( 2.5 Million)
• Dharavi – India ( 1 Million)
• Khayelistha – South Africa (400,000)
• Kiberta – Kenya, inside Nairobi ( 250,000)

9. Questions

10. Appendix - Urban Population
http://www.unhabitat.org/