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Strategy & Planning

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
Homelessness: An Emerging Threat
Arulmani Thiyagarajan
Sudip Bhattacharya
Kanica Kaushal
India's homelessness problem has come into sharp focus over the last decade. The 2011 census count enumerated 449,761 houseless households and families and 17,73,040 people experiencing homelessness in India. The census further broke down those numbers to suggest 52.9 % of these people were based in urban areas, and 47.1% in rural areas...
Region:
South & Southeast Asia
Decoding housing for all by 2022: India’s commitment to inclusive, sustainable, and affordable development
KPMG
Housing in India varies significantly and can reflect the socio-economic mix of its vast population. In the last decade, there has been tremendous growth in the country’s housing sector, along with demographic changes, rise in income, growth in the number of nuclear families, and urbanisation. The commitment to have housing for all by...
Region:
South & Southeast Asia
Homelessness in India
Sanjukta Sattar
Shelter is the basic human requirement that needs to be met on priority basis. Housing is an important source of shelter, comfort and social status; as "home" performs basic protective and symbolic functions (Smith 1977).Housing fulfills physical needs by providing security and shelter from weather and climate; psychological needs by...
Region:
South & Southeast Asia
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