Why Bamboo Housing?
Affordability: Of all the advantages of bamboo housing technology, the most important is its low cost that doesn’t sacrifice quality, durability nor space. In stead it allows an option that is feasible for populations of scarce resources. According to PNB Costa Rica, bamboo houses are about 20% cheaper than the usual type of social housing. The cost of one house built by Viviendas del Hogar de Cristo (VHC) in Equador is less than US$450 which is pretty affordable for poor and marginal people. The government subsidy could further reduce the total cost for poor. Employment generation: The manufacturing and distribution of low cost bamboo houses itself will provide employment to a range of people and there will be extra employment generation in its forward and backward linkages such as cultivation, harvesting, primary processing, transport and marketing of bamboo. Availability of raw materials: Raw materials are easily and readily available in the bamboo growing countries. It has been cal
