Urbanization and Affordable Housing

Abstract

The objective of this research paper is to study the urban housing problem in India. Urbanization is becoming a major global threat with over half of the world’s population living in urban areas. Additionally, problems like haphazard development, income level, poverty, literacy and unemployment are visible due to urbanization. These issues were extenuated the housing problem during the 11th five-year plan period. Despite necessary steps taken by the central, state and local government there persists a wide demand-supply gap pertaining to housing. Presently, India needs to build many million houses at the right location with affordable price and adequate quality especially for EWS and LIG groups of people. This paper mainly discusses the background of affordable urban housing shortage in India. The development of three criteria’s i.e. government Housing, public private partnership and government provided land to affected person and self-development. A broader spectrum can’t be entailed in this research paper. As it have been started with the basic grid of urbanization and affordable housing in India, through demographic analysis it is possible to relate population with housing shortage in India. This paper will examine affordable housing scheme in N.C.T of Delhi, at the extent to which affordable housing is made available to the urban poor in Delhi by the government. This paper addresses various glitches associated with the provision of affordable housing by elucidating the very concept of cheap housing and all that it entails in context of national-level policies, schemes carried out by Delhi Government.