Performance based philosophy is proposed to verify the seismic design of the soil-cement confined masonry. Experimental wall data considering in-plane and out-of-plane behaviors have been used to propose three seismic limit states: Serviceability, Reparability and Safety. Besides that, two design seismic forces, one given in the current special normative for designing and construction of housing and another taken from recorded earthquakes, have been applied to the basic constructed house modulus to verify the safety as well as to verify its seismic design using current normative where the soil cement is not considered as infill element.