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Hello Peter. May I ask why you would want to give away 100 houses, and which criteria you would use? When organisations (private / NGOs / public) are trying to promote housing and debate the use of subsidies and so on, it can be very disruptive if another organisation comes in and offers things for free. For emergency shelter it is OK for but long-term housing, the main issue is typically not so much the actual housing structure but land (which can get very political, but are the only way to address long-term problems), finance (availability of housing finance...), infrastructure...

You could get in touch with IFRC, the contact point now that the Shelter Cluster has finished (see this page). The Shelter Cluster website can also give you an idea of the local actors involved.