Housing facts and figures
- Andrew Bannister
- Dec 31, 2025
- 1 min read
Annual Housing Requirement
UN UN-Habitat-Habitat estimates that 3 billion people, about 40% of the world's population, will need access to adequate housing by 2030. This translates into a demand for 96,000 new affordable and accessible housing units every day — which calculates to approximately 35 million homes annually.
UN-Habitat's 2024 Annual Report highlights this as equivalent to constructing one home every second. Metropolis
Current Scale of the Crisis (2025-2026)
The United Nations reports 300 million homeless people, expected to rise to 330 million by the end of 2025. Around 2.8 billion lack adequate housing. IASPOINT
UN agencies estimate about 3 billion people will need access to adequate housing by 2030, with over 1 billion currently living in slums or substandard settlements. DevelopmentAid
Regional Specifics
India's shortfall is estimated at 10 million affordable homes, a figure that could triple by 2030. DevelopmentAid
The Philippines has 3.7 million informal settler families, with official housing backlog at 6.5 million units in 2022, with predictions estimating this will climb to 22 million by 2040. DevelopmentAid
This validates the 35 million annual figure you've been using for GUILD of MMC presentations. The scale is enormous, and as UN-Habitat Executive Director Anacláudia Rossbach stated at the May 2025 Assembly, the crisis demands transformative action — precisely the type of MMC solutions your consortium delivers with 30-40% cost savings and 40-50% time reductions.
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