Habihut: Montana startup company, Habihut, tackles housing crisis, from Kenya to Haiti

Bruce Leep was a bit shocked the first time he walked through the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, where as many as 1 million people live in shacks made of garbage or tattered, leaking plastic tarps.

"That was an eye-opener," he said, "to see all the kids and women and men, barely existing."

Leep, 43, a down-to-earth Bozeman home builder who sometimes wears a Hawks baseball cap, had traveled to Kenya last summer, bringing a possible solution – a new kind of shelter. It’s made in Montana and called a Habihut http://www.thehabihut.com/ .

By GAIL SCHONTZLER, Chronicle Staff Writer

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