SCOPE firmly believes that housing schemes will be successful only if people are allowed to participate in the designing of their homes. This gives them an opportunity to have a say in its construction. Lack of knowledge about use of materials is offset by SCOPE which trains them in all aspects of home designing. SCOPE's success lies in the fact that its houses have been welcomed by all sections of the rural community.

The environmental condition in which the people lived was very poor. They suffer a lot under damaged thatched low roofs without air and natural light. Not only it was a health hazard to them, they also suffers during rain., to have pacca house was their distant dream being very poor. The target population lived in dilapidated houses with thatched roof, command very poor social respect. Thus SCOPE constructed proper safe, ventilated and spacious houses for more 300 beneficiaries among the rural poor with the assistance of Homeless International, CAPART, KKS, DRDA (Credit-Cum-Subsidy) etc.

SCOPE changed thatched roof hut to tiled houses. The new houses have sanitary latrines and smokeless chulas being constructed with cement blocks instead of bricks, the blocks being manufactured by village communities after being trained for this purpose. As beneficiaries repaid loans, similar facility was extended to newcomers on a revolving basis, thereby ensuring, benefit for the maximum number of beneficiaries.

Known as rural Indian households are for being smoke filled dwellings due to lack of proper ventilation, it was a change for the better when SCOPE introduced smokeless choolas in its operational area.

The people were practising the traditional means of cooking using conventional fuels like firewood and cow-dung cake, which produced heavy smoke, making the dwelling unclean and creating respiratory and eye problems. So an alternative was the Smokeless chula.

SCOPE has conducted many awareness meetings regarding the importance of Smokeless chulas and its uses. It is a good concept in the rural development programme, which is essentially an art of avoiding firewood use in houses. Through this, the people were relieved from suffocating smoke and they are benefited, economically as well as environmentally.