1st Edition

Housing India Programmes, Policies and Governance

Edited By Urmi Sengupta, Annapurna Shaw, Debolina Kundu Copyright 2024
122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

In this unique book on housing in India, 11 leading scholars come together to offer a critical appraisal of current housing policies and programmes in India. Contributions contextualise and conceptualise the Indian housing paradigm with an integrated perspective, covering diverse regions and themes related to housing, such as: Financial constraints to adequate housing in India Policy... Read more

Introduction: Urban housing in India
Urmi Sengupta, Annapurna Shaw and Debolina Kundu

 

Commentary on ‘Housing India: Programmes, Policies and Governance’
Amitabh Kundu

1. Financial constraints to adequate housing: an empirical analysis of housing consumption dis- equilibrium and household decisions on meeting housing requirements in India

Piyush Tiwari, Jyoti Shukla and Raghu Dharmapuri Tirumala

 

2. Policy implementation dynamics of national housing programmes in India- evidence from Madhya Pradesh

Sheuli Mitra

 

3. Refusing slum-centric mass housing: indigenous urbanism and mass housing programmes in Aizawl, India

Lalitha Kamath

 

4. Outsiders in the periphery: studies of the peripheralisation of low income housing in Ahmedabad and Chennai, India

Karen Coelho, Darshini Mahadevia and Glyn Williams

Biography

Urmi Sengupta is a Reader in the School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University Belfast.

Annapurna Shaw is Former Professor in the Public Policy and Management Group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

Debolina Kundu is Professor at National Institute of Urban Affairs. She is the Country Lead for the UK Research and Innovation supported project ‘Sustainable, Healthy, Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods’.