In South Africa, income inequality is the highest in the world (the Gini coefcient is ±0.67), and unemployment is rife at 32% (or 45% for youth aged 15-34 years).
Building affordable housing at scale using nonCrete building products has the potential to create exactly the type of jobs needed to bring these numbers down.
Financially, nonCrete’s carbon-negative construction compares favourably with current South African government’s low cost housing expenditure that employs high-carbon business-as-usual practices with none of the attendant fire resistance.
NonCrete’s solution also has a long-term impact through biodiversity protection, ecosystem regeneration, rainwater retention, and energy savings.
