Kotal, M. Chakraborty, S. and Patel, P.P.

Housing for migrant workers: A case study of housing sub-market in Ernakulum district, Kerala - Economic and Political Weekly - 57(8), 19-Feb, 2022: p.12-18

With there being almost no housing policies for lower income migrant workers in the country, Kerala has attempted to address this problem by introducing a state-level housing policy called Apna Ghar. This article examines the policy’s effectiveness by exploring the “housing–work” relation in the existing housing sub-markets in Kerala’s Ernakulam district, in which the residential typologies inhabited by such worker groups are examined as to their economic affordability, service/amenities adequacy, workplace accessibility and ease of renting/shifting habitations. – Reproduced