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The $300 House: A Hands-On Approach to a Wicked Problem

Harvard Business Review

How do you get energy and infrastructure into such dwellings? Yet, Sunil Suri wrote in a post on the urban challenge that "slums by their nature are located where land and space are limited." Suri proposed potential solutions, including innovative materials, new ways of thinking of the construction process, and building up.

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The $300 House: The Urban Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Today, Sunil Suri offers a way to scale Class-A housing in densely populated areas. In India, our proposition is to offer low entry costs (we could, in the extreme case, offer homes free up-front), and realize our investment from the annuity of captive consumption. Achieving Global, Low-Cost, Class-A Construction.

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