One billion people in the world lack housing. The UN predicts that by 2030 two out of every five people will not have access to a safe home. As cities grow, hundreds of millions move to informal or inadequate housing often self-built without lifesaving engineering. Although housing represents over 60% of building stock, each house has unique construction, ownership and financing characteristics making large-scale housing programs and policies highly complex.

Effective programs require multi-disciplinary expertise in engineering, urban planning and finance. Miyamoto continuously develops tools to identify and address vulnerabilities and strengthen existing structures to keep families in their homes.

Miyamoto’s specialists are renowned for building well-connected, cost-effective, culturally appropriate and environmentally friendly new developments using local labor, innovative funding mechanisms and international, disaster-resilient standards.