Mahadeva, M.
Human settlement issues India: The housing development strategies and poverty - Man & Development - 42(1), Mar, 2020: p.1-22
India is certainly a leading example of not attaining the human settlement requirements in all measures, especially in the case of housing the homeless families among many. Housing poverty is heralded both quantitatively and qualitatively ever since the independence. Officially, about 20 per end of the households are facing housing poverty due to inadequate public actions and housing market limitations. The situation in countryside is more pathetic owing to the lack of housing market operation and excessive dependence on the public action, which is proved ineffective to alleviate the housing poverty. This paper captures the development in the housing sector with selct3ed hut critical parameters and assesses the performance. It also measures the volume of housing poverty taking the incidences of housing adjustment and unsafe as well as life threatening dwellings of the households into consideration. It has offered a few policy implications both to eradicate the present poverty and to evolve perspective plan for the future. - Reproduced
Settlement, Strategy, Development, Poverty, Implication
Human settlement issues India: The housing development strategies and poverty - Man & Development - 42(1), Mar, 2020: p.1-22
India is certainly a leading example of not attaining the human settlement requirements in all measures, especially in the case of housing the homeless families among many. Housing poverty is heralded both quantitatively and qualitatively ever since the independence. Officially, about 20 per end of the households are facing housing poverty due to inadequate public actions and housing market limitations. The situation in countryside is more pathetic owing to the lack of housing market operation and excessive dependence on the public action, which is proved ineffective to alleviate the housing poverty. This paper captures the development in the housing sector with selct3ed hut critical parameters and assesses the performance. It also measures the volume of housing poverty taking the incidences of housing adjustment and unsafe as well as life threatening dwellings of the households into consideration. It has offered a few policy implications both to eradicate the present poverty and to evolve perspective plan for the future. - Reproduced
Settlement, Strategy, Development, Poverty, Implication