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March 1, 2017

Hennie Botes, an advisor to the $300 House , is featured by the World Economic Forum for his innovative housing system - moladi.

Feb 1, 2017

Anthony Ulwick is now an advisor to the $300 House .

Sep 12, 2016

Philip Kotler is now an advisor to the $300 House .

July 2016

Christian Sarkar holds 3-day innovation workshop for global company on BoP Housing.

Oct 4. 2015

The Ecosystem of Poverty: Lessons Learned from the $300 House Project by Abhijit De and Christian Sarkar.

Aug 4. 2015

Amit Kapoor, President & CEO of the India Council on Competitiveness is now an advisor to the $300 House project.

July 16-17. 2015



Christian Sarkar moderated the Global Affordable Housing session at the 2nd BOP Global Network Summit with CEMEX, TATA Housing, and the Solar Electric Light Fund.

June 9. 2015

Take our Affordable Housing Survey . The survey covers three critical domains: I. Business Models, II. Partner & Support Ecosystems, and III. Measuring Impact.

May 15. 2015

Madhu Menon (Micro Housing Finance Corporation Ltd.) is now an advisor to the $300 House

May 11. 2015

Mario Gonzalez (CEMEX) is now an advisor to the $300 House

May 6-8. 2015





Christian Sarkar speaks at the Foro Latinoamericano de Vivienda Adecuada.

May 1. 2015

Urgent call to help Nepal >> here and here

March 3. 2015

Tim McCormick's Houslets idea needs your support on Indiegogo >> @tmccormick

January 28. 2015

Mel Chin is now an advisor to the $300 House

January 14. 2015

Vivek Wadhwa is now an advisor to the $300 House

December 15. 2014

Sanjay Prakash is now an advisor to the $300 House

December 15. 2014

J.K. Chandra, retired DLF senior executive , is now an advisor to the $300 House

December 7. 2014

Rahul Vatsyayan is now an advisor to the $300 House

March 25. 2014

Shuvashish Chatterjee, City 2.0, is now an advisor to the $300 House (see his report)

March 2. 2014

Ava Mulla, Grameen Social Business, is now an advisor to the $300 House

Jan 29. 2014

Whatever Happened to the $300 House?

July 21. 2013

Lillian Sum, Director of Sacred Earth Trust, is now an advisor to the $300 House

July 02. 2013

IKEA announces flatpack refugee shelters for the UN



March 19. 2013

Update on the $300 House The Guardian

February 16. 2013

Ani Dasgupta, Director of Knowledge and Learning at the World Bank, is now an advisor to the $300 House

February 8. 2013

Pune architects Abhijit De, Girish Doshi, and Narendra Dengle are now advisors to the $300 House

November 26. 2012





The $300 House is a finalist for the Katerva Awards

October 2. 2012

Linda Peia is now an advisor to the $300 House

September 25. 2012

Rogelio Garcia-Contreras is now an advisor to the $300 House

September 19. 2012

$300 House is featured in Inclusivity by Michael Gordon and Christian Sarkar

August 10. 2012

Get to Know Your Non-Customer Harvard Business Review

August 1. 2012

Sharon Dearman is now an advisor to the $300 House

June 11. 2012

Deepa Prahalad is now an advisor to the $300 House

April 4. 2012

Dr. Anteneh Roba, International Fund for Africa is now an advisor to the $300 House

March 4. 2012

Zhooben Bhiwandiwala, Mahindra Partners, is now an advisor to the $300 House

February 14. 2012

Want to Build a Cheap House? How About One For $300? SPAN

February 12. 2012

The house that students built Financial Times

February 6. 2012

La Casa da 300 dollari Galileo

January 25. 2012

Dartmouth: $300 House Keynote, VG and Jim Yong Kim kickoff the $300 House [4 Haiti] workshop

October 9. 2011

Report: The $300 House: A Community Survey of Rural India (THL)

October 5. 2011

VG + $300 House shortlisted by Thinkers50

October 1. 2011

Vision Statement: The $300 House Harvard Business Review

September 15. 2011

A $300 House: Fact or fiction? HousingRevolution

September 12. 2011

Stephan Butler joins the $300 House as an advisor.



September 10. 2011

Nitin Sharma, Shourin Roy and Kyle Elllicott join the $300 House as advisors.

September 3. 2011

Dartmouth Team to Visit Haiti



August 18. 2011

La vuoi una casa per 200 euro? L'espresso

August 18. 2011

Likeonomics: How To Make Your Brand More Believable Fast Company

August 1. 2011

Eric Ho (Architecture Commons) joins the $300 House as an advisor.

July 26. 2011

Hybrid House: Extraordinary Green Home Can be Built for Under $300 Inhabitat

July 18. 2011

The $300 House: Businesses Take Up the Challenge Harvard Business Review

July 4. 2011

Salem Avan joins the $300 House as an advisor.

June 30. 2011

Kate Bulkley joins the $300 House as an advisor.

June 28. 2011



Eric Ho (a winner of the $300 House challenge) discusses the idea on CNN

June 27. 2011

Praise and Criticism of the $300 House Master of International Cooperation Sustainable Emergency Architecture

June 26. 2011

$300 home is not just viable but also profitable Hindustan Times

June 26. 2011

Harvey Lacey joins the $300 House as an advisor.

June 25. 2011

Owen Geiger (GRISB.org) joins the $300 House as advisor.



June 24. 2011

The £197 'nano house' designed to solve India's slum housing Telegraph

June 24. 2011

M & M win award for $300 Home Times of India

June 23. 2011

Activate 2011: Technology powered by people Guardian

June 23. 2011

Nano home at $300? Mahindras tap Harvard dons Hindustan Times

June 22. 2011

Christian speaks at Activate 2011 about the $300 house (video).

June 21. 2011

Six Designs For Houses That Cost Just $300 To Build Fast Company

June 19. 2011

Contest seeks ideas for $300 houses to shelter world's poor Gizmag

June 18. 2011

A home in Mumbai for $300? Why not, says NRI DNA

June 16. 2011

Inspiration - The $300 House





June 15. 2011

The Winners of the $300 House Open Design Challenge Congratulations!

June 7. 2011

The $300 House: A Hands-On Approach to a Wicked Problem (Harvard Business Review) our rebuttal to the NY Times Op-Ed.

June 3. 2011

$300 slum house? Worthy but worthless (The Berkely Blog).

May 31. 2011

Hands Off Our Houses (New York Times) Op-Ed challenges the $300 House.

May 23. 2011

Stacey Lawson (CET, UC Berkeley) joins the $300 House as an advisor.

May 23. 2011

Erich Habian (Wienerberger) joins the $300 House as an advisor.

May 20. 2011

Roland Merten (BASF) joins the $300 House as an advisor.

May 16. 2011

Helen Walters (Doblin) joins the $300 House as an advisor and judge.

May 15. 2011

Larry Keeley (Doblin) joins the $300 House as an advisor.

May 15. 2011

Madhav Chavan (Pratham) joins the $300 House as an advisor.

May 12. 2011

Ophelia Dahl (Partners In Health) joins the $300 House as an advisor and judge.

May 12. 2011

Patrice Nevil (Zanmi Lasante) joins the $300 House as an advisor and judge.

May 12. 2011

Paul Miller a.k.a. D.J. Spooky joins the $300 House as an advisor.

May 10. 2011

Google SketchUp on the $300 House >>

May 5. 2011

How to house the world's poor: The $300 house of ideas Globe and Mail >>

May 3. 2011

What a $300 House Teaches Us About Big Business

Technorati >>

May 3. 2011

INTERVIEW with Christian Sarkar Guardian >>



May 2. 2011

Can a $300 House Save 2 Billion People Living in Poverty? [PICS] Mashable >>

May 1. 2011

The BBC interviews VG:



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April 28. 2011

The $300 House in The Economist >>

April 20. 2011

$300 House Open Design Challenge launched!

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April 14. 2011

Valeria Budinich joins the $300 House as an advisor.

April 10. 2011

Rahul Mehrotra joins the $300 House as a judge and advisor.

April 9. 2011

Jack Wilson joins the $300 House as an advisor.

April 8. 2011

Bastian Unterberg joins the $300 House as an advisor.

April 7. 2011

Paul Newman joins the $300 House as an advisor.

April 6. 2011

Yves Behar joins the $300 House as a judge for the design challenge.

April 5. 2011

Daniel Johnson joins the $300 House as a judge and advisor.

March 26. 2011

Michael Gordon joins the $300 House as an advisor.

March 25. 2011

W. Scott Tew joins the $300 House as an advisor.

March 25. 2011

Javed Matin joins the $300 House as an advisor.

March 22. 2011

John Bielenberg joins the $300 House as an advisor.

March 20. 2011

Byron Katie joins the $300 House as an advisor.

March 18. 2011

Chairul Tanjung, the Chairman of the National Economic Committee of Indonesia, joins the $300 House as an advisor.

March 17. 2011

HBR editor Scott Berinato's slideshow on the $300 House >>

March 15. 2011

Toby Cumberbatch joins the $300 House as an advisor.

March 11. 2011

Paul Polak joins the $300 House as an advisor.

March 8. 2011

VG discusses the $300 House on HBR video >>

March 3. 2011

Benjamin Linder joins us as an advisor to the $300 House.

March 3. 2011

Dave Cranmer joins us as an advisor to the $300 House.

February 26. 2011

Shaun Abrahamson joins us as an advisor to the $300 House.

February 26. 2011

Derek "Deek" Diedricksen joins us as an advisor to the $300 House.

February 26. 2011

Christina M. Alfonso is now an advisor to the $300 House.

February 23. 2011

John Tammaro is now an advisor to the $300 House.

February 18. 2011

Ryan Henderson is now an advisor to the $300 House.

February 12. 2011

Vinay Gupta joins us an advisor to the $300 House.

February 11. 2011

Samuel Freeman is now an advisor to the $300 House.

February 10. 2011

US Airways features the $300 House in its in-flight magazine.

February 8. 2011

Reggae star David Hinds (Steel Pulse) is now an advisor to the $300 House.

February 2. 2011

David Sands blogs about the $300 House in HBR.

January 28. 2011

Doug Pushard joins the $300 House advisory group.

January 27. 2011

Alex Bogusky introduces COMMON, includes the $300 House!

January 25. 2011

Daniel Klein-Marcuschamer is now an advisor for the $300 House.

January 24. 2011

Christian Blyt joins the $300 House advisory group.

January 24. 2011

The Co-operation Blog mentions the $300 House.

January 21. 2011

Ramona Albert joins the $300 House advisory group.

January 20. 2011

Kevin Roberts, CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi, gives the $300 House a mention!

January 18. 2011

Rafael Smith is now an advisor for the $300 House.

January 17. 2011

Stuart L. Hart is now an advisor for the $300 House.

January 17. 2011

Manoj Sinha of Husk Power Systems is now an advisor for the $300 House.

January 14. 2011

Umair Haque is now an advisor for the $300 House.

January 13. 2011

The $300 House gets a favorable mention in The Economist blog.

January 10. 2011

Dow Corning CEO + Chairman Stephanie A. Burns blogs about the $300 House on the Harvard Business Review blog

January 07. 2011

Students at RMCAD.edu to design $300 Houses. [stay tuned!]

January 05. 2011

Harvard Business Review's Scott Berinato is now an official advisor to the $300 House.

January 04. 2011

3 new advisors: David Sands - the world's leading bamboo architect; Sunil Suri of Menlo Capital Group; and Arun Lal of miloka.com