Rahat aims to provide solace (in Hindi: राहत (Rahat)) from extreme heat in the slums of Jodhpur in western India by implementing women-led housing design strategies like reflective roofs through community engagement. Through a randomised control trial experiment, this intervention seeks to relieve economically disadvantaged communities by assessing the solution’s effectiveness, community acceptance, and livelihood generation potential. The goal is to make extreme heat stress visible to the women in low-income communities, who often maladapt to heat and suffer from heat-health inequalities.