The winners of the 2023 World Habitat Awards cover the globe and a range of different solutions to one of the world’s most challenging problems – making sure people have a safe, healthy, affordable place to live.

The two Gold Medal winners are from Scotland, focusing on low-income renters, and Senegal, which focuses on informal households. One of the silver medal winners is from Spain and Catalonia, promoting a cooperative approach to housing, while the other focuses on supporting microfinance institutions worldwide so they will lend money for people to upgrade their homes. The two bronze medal winners are from India, a project that empowers urban slum dwellers and France, an innovative residents’ cooperative.