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India

Housing Poverty in Urban India: The Failures of Past and Current Strategies and the Need for a New Blueprint
Renita D’Souza
This paper argues that India’s housing strategy should not be confined to merely creating affordable housing stock to tackle the shortage, as such an approach is myopic. Instead, a sound housing strategy must be informed by an adequate understanding of the multiple facets of housing poverty, including the factors that are responsible for...
Region:
Central & East Asia
Iswar Sankalpa: Experience with the Homeless Persons with Mental Illness
Debashis Chatterjee
Sarbani Das Roy
This is the story of an organization called Iswar Sankalpa, working with homeless persons with mental illness in the streets of Kolkata, a large metropolitan city in India. After discussing the issues of homeless persons with mental illness in general and describing briefly the current relevant situation in the city in the introduction,...
Region:
South & Southeast Asia
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