Our Impact

Mission

Vision

A world where everyone has access to low-cost, adaptable infrastructure for their housing, education, health, security, and livelihood needs.

Kickstart bottom-up infrastructure by providing low-cost housing kits from recycled materials which can be assembled without any special skills or tools.

OUR STORY

From pallet racks to urban housing

Pop-Up Housing was inspired by the pallet-rack movement - a low-cost, low-skill approach to rapidly deploying structures made from readily available local materials. Pallet racks offer immense strength without being heavy or labor-intensive. Pop-Up Housing's slotted metal frames as lighter alternatives for smaller structures.

Sampath Reddy, Pop-Up Housing's founder, worked alongside MIT media labs as part of Kumbathon - an event meant to identify solutions for a number of problems associated with urbanization in India. Today, Sampath and his team of staff and volunteers are focused on providing smaller-scale housing and community structures to improve the lives and livelihoods of migrants and other marginalized communities.

(Founder Sampath Reddy in front of a pallet-rack construction. Pop-Up Housing's logo and colors are directly inspired by this style of building.)

Development Areas

Through our work, Pop-Up Housing is addressing the following Millennium Development Goals:

#3: Health and Wellbeing

#9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

#10: Reduced Inequalities

#11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Both mental and physical health depending on having a home. Besides providing secure, weather-proof, and insect-resistant homes, we build bunk beds for children to stay dry and safe from disease-causing bacteria and parasites.

Our modular infrastructure goes beyond just homes. Because it uses readily available materials that don't require special knowledge or tools to assemble, Pop-Up Housing empowers communities to build for themselves what they actually need most.

Our focus is on marginalized and migrant community members and their families in urban India. We work closely with local NGOs to address gaps in education, access to finance, livelihood training, and LGBTQIA+ rights.

Urbanization isn't slowing down, but cities are running out of space for BOP communities. Our solution is lightweight, modular, and affordable enough to provide the urban poor with adequate spaces for living, learning, and working - where traditional construction can't.

Team

Partner with Pop-Up Housing

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Partners