{"id":133670,"date":"2022-01-06T19:22:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T03:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/affordable-solar-homes-a-solution-for-homeowner-poverty-net-zero-housing"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:22:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T03:22:42","slug":"affordable-solar-homes-a-solution-for-homeowner-poverty-net-zero-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/affordable-solar-homes-a-solution-for-homeowner-poverty-net-zero-housing","title":{"rendered":"Affordable solar homes \u2014 a solution for homeowner poverty &amp; net-zero housing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/affordable-solar-homes-a-solution-for-homeowner-poverty-net-zero-housing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/tag\/net-zero\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Net-zero<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/tag\/sustainable-architecture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">architecture<\/a> is what will reduce emissions from the construction industry on a large scale. But make it inclusive as well as scalable and you also get a solution that can lift homeowners out of poverty while building a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/tag\/community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">community<\/a>! Created for that very purpose, these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/tag\/solar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">solar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/tag\/solar-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">homes<\/a> are aiming to help solve both the global housing and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/tag\/climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">climate<\/a> crises with one design. The houses produce their energy, harvest 100% of the rainwater, clean their sewage, and also have the potential to grow their own food!<\/p>\n<p>It is called the PowerHYDE housing model and was created by Prasoon Kumar and Robert Verrijt of Billion Bricks from India and Singapore. The model explores <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yankodesign.com\/tag\/sustainable-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sustainable<\/a> solutions to empower and facilitate growth opportunities for people without homes around Southeast Asia which has a lot of rural and low-income populations. These homes not only provide shelter but are also a power module to scale sustainable communities that lift homeowners out of poverty!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Net-zero architecture is what will reduce emissions from the construction industry on a large scale. But make it inclusive as well as scalable and you also get a solution that can lift homeowners out of poverty while building a community! Created for that very purpose, these solar homes are aiming to help solve both the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-habitats","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}