Affordable Housing and Infrastructure Services

The book provides a clear understanding of the various issues. Written with Indian background the author reviews the definition of housing its classification and the concepts of affordability subsidies rental housing retrofitting upgradation and slum rehabilitation. The author provokes thinking beyond the public-private binary and develop a third option where the local community is the driver and housing is not considered as a commodity. The book makes a case for the adoption of innovative technologies together with reforms in planning norms mixed land use and optimum use of land and other resources for inclusive housing.