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Hogares Saludables: what a better home changes
Impact evaluation for Cementos Argos, with the Inter-American Development Bank · 2023–2024
Hogares Saludables upgrades kitchens, floors and bathrooms and adds a 40-hour construction and life-skills course. We evaluated it with a cluster randomised controlled trial covering 1,163 low-income urban households in three Colombian cities.
The intervention improved mental health, reduced fever among children under six, lowered unemployment and debt and raised income expectations; it did not change domestic violence or family harmony. Thirty-one percent of treated households made further improvements on their own, which suggests that interior upgrades work as a catalyst for continued investment.
A companion study sent engineers into informal dwellings and trained an AI model on 11,000 photographs to rate housing quality, linking it to well-being and rental values.
Working paper: impact evaluationWorking paper: housing and well-being
