A January 2017 report “The State of Housing in Central America” from Habitat for Humanity and the Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development (CLACDS) put Guatemala’s housing deficit at an estimated 1.54 million homes. That gap, though, if recent weather patterns and their effects are any indication, is only likely to grow, and the most affected will be the poor. According to Guatemala’s Ministerio de Comunicaciones, Infraestructura y Vivienda de la República de Guatemala (CIV) the country’s housing deficit has grown by 39 percent in the past six years.