In 2005 the UN Commission on Human Rights was told by Special Rapporteur and qualified architect Miloon Kothari that 1billion people around the world ‘lack adequate housing’ and approximately 100 million are classified homeless. Four years later, with natural disasters and a Credit Crunch to boot the statistics are bound to take a further battering. But you can always rely on the ingenuity and creativity of the architecture community to bash out a solution - two innovations have been announced that may provide a tangible difference at opposite ends of the poverty scale.