Annesha Dasgupta

UH4000

The housing studio aims at developing a city wide housing strategy to improve access to affordable and decent housing for all income groups. Access to decent housing that is affordable for all is a key for a habitable city. Issues such as inadequate delivery of serviced land in cities, irrational and counterproductive land and building regulations that impose high costs of housing unit price, other regulatory processes such as environmental clearance, RERA clearance, stamp duty, and registration often cause further delay, additional time and thereby increase the price of housing units. As consequence markets are unable to provide units below a certain price range, leaving a large section of households seeking housing adjustments uncatered and for whom access to affordable housing mains a critical issue. On the other hand, government attempts to directly provide for poor urban households living in substandard and informal housing, through policies and programs which do not really reach the intended beneficiaries as they are often ill conceived, straightjacketed formulation at the state and national level rather than at the local level.