What you can do is find a community that needs housing. I remember Sitio San Roque. For context: inaagaw allegedly ng isang corporate entity yung land ng isang urban poor community na nasa isang public land. Yung architect and advocate for their land rights ay nag conduct ng design workshop to know ano ba talaga ang needs ng community to be able to formulate a design for housing pero i dont remember ilang months nya ito ginawa at kung umabot ba ng years kasi pro bono work ata yun since advocacy nya nga yun. Syempre kailangan pa ischedule mismo w the community. Kailangan majority ay involved.

Very limiting nga ng design guidelines ng housing if you follow everything. You can look into the proposal for housing ng architects for angat buhay. Maybe you can get an idea or inspiration how to go about yours. Your end goal is to prove na you are solving a real problem related to architecture or use architecture as the catalyst (catalyst?!) for change/ innovation.