Affordable housing in new housing projects is essential, ensuring stable constructions that can withstand disaster.

Providing jobs in an area where most people are living at subsistence levels is crucial and small scale brick production shows great growth. It is in large demand in Peru, and Practical Action has been working with brickmakers to improve kiln efficiency by safely by continuous burning, research and better processes, and by using alternative fules instead of wood. These fuels include locally mined coal, oil, and rice husks.