This affordable housing development in China's Fuyang District, near Hangzhou, features sloping tiled roofs and a pared-back material palette inspired by the region's vernacular architecture. More about Gad Line+ Studio creates low-cost housing in rural Chinese village
The latest instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores a proposal to construct rows of affordable housing on bridges above roads in Sydney. More about Affordable homes are built above Sydney streets in proposal by NIKA
American studio EC3 has created a residential development in central Detroit, comprising a cluster of different-sized Quonset huts made of steel and polycarbonate panels. More about Prefab metal structures form True North housing complex in Detroit by EC3
Kanye West's first foray into architecture is expected to be a prefabricated concrete affordable-housing project, which has emerged a month after he announced a new arm of his Yeezy fashion label. More about Kanye West expected to begin Yeezy Home architecture venture with social-housing project
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has announced plans to turn dirt excavated by his tunnel-digging enterprise the Boring Company into a cheap building material. More about Elon Musk reveals plans to create bricks for low-cost housing
Invisible Studio built this mobile micro home at its woodland studio near Bath, England, for just £20,000, thanks to the use of salvaged materials and locally grown timber. More about Low-cost micro home is made from timber and scavenged materials
Hong Kong studio James Law Cybertecture has developed a prototype for low-cost, stackable micro homes in concrete pipes, which could slot into gaps between city buildings. More about Micro apartments in concrete pipes designed to ease Hong Kong's housing crisis
London studio Outpost has won a contest seeking ideas for how disused gas holders could be repurposed across the UK, with its concept for a ring of affordable housing and workspaces. More about Affordable housing and studio concept wins RIBA contest for decommissioned gas holders
Urban-Think Tank has completed the next phase of its Empower Shack project, bringing safe low-cost housing to residents of South Africa's informal settlements. More about Urban-Think Tank develops low-cost housing for South African slum
Royal College of Art architecture graduate Llywelyn James has proposed a series of elevated residential blocks for an undeveloped brownfield land near Thamesmead in London to aid the city's housing crisis. More about Llywelyn James proposes affordable cantilevered housing for London's brownfield sites
Self-contained micro homes are being installed inside vacant buildings across London as part of an initiative called The SHED Project, which features in the latest movie from our Dezeen x MINI Living video series. More about The SHED Project offers micro-homes inside vacant London properties
Royal College of Art architecture graduate Eda Kutluozen's Vertical Open City project proposes inserting dense affordable housing and public spaces into disused sites across London. More about Eda Kutluozen proposes affordable housing above tube stations for London's key workers
This captioned movie explores a proposal by RCA graduate Llywelyn James to tackle London's housing crisis by building 100-metre-long cantilevered structures on the city's undeveloped brownfield sites. More one-minute movies ›
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Stockholm studio Andreas Martin-Löf Arkitekter has completed a cluster of affordable apartment blocks in the Swedish capital, featuring facades with alternating opaque and transparent sections. More about Chequerboard facades front Andreas Martin-Löf Arkitekter's affordable housing in Stockholm
Following the UK launch of an affordable micro home that takes less than a day to build, here's a look at 10 properties from around the world that show how comfortable living can be created with limited funds. More about 10 innovative homes built on extremely tight budgets
In a bid to solve the UK's housing crisis, Estonian design collective Kodasema has launched its prefabricated 25-square-metre micro home that takes less than a day to build and can be relocated to make use of vacant sites. More about Kodasema launches tiny prefab home for £150k in UK
California architecture firm Brooks + Scarpa has designed a low-cost housing development in Los Angeles to accommodate displaced service members. More about Brooks + Scarpa completes The Six housing for LA's homeless and disabled veterans
Faced with the difficult task of delivering a family house for less than €100,000, Portuguese architect José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira designed this cuboidal concrete property. More about Mami House is a "mini bunker" built for a couple on a very tight budget
British studio OMMX has teamed up with house-builder Naked House to develop an affordable housing model for London, offering homes stripped back to just their bare necessities. More about Naked House and OMMX offer bare-bones affordable housing for London
This conceptual scheme by designers Beomki Lee and Chang Kyu Lee calls for using vacant airspace over existing New York buildings to create affordable apartments and public areas. More about Modular affordable housing envisioned for "abandoned" New York airspace