Affordable Housing in India Ram & Harper

This book examines the housing crisis in India and underlines the need for formal housing markets. India is home to the world’s largest population of slum dwellers. The book examines actual causes of the problem and the financial and political issues which underlie it. The volume: analyses multiple perspectives on housing from the points of view of slum dwellers builders facilitators bureaucrats and politicians presents a fresh overview of the housing sector in India based on the conditions of slum dwellers in a typical medium-sized fast-growing city – Raipur in the state of chhattisgarh puts forward radical conclusions practical solutions and policy recommendations for a formal housing market in India. this will be a major intervention for scholars and researchers of urban sociology built environment public policy development studies economics political economy institutional economics and urban studies as well as policy make Rs planners and professionals in the urban development sector.