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institutions and derelict land plays a critical role in Plans/Development Plans. Land
buildings. These plots remain pricing and affordability of thus defined can be acquired,
unused for number of years in residential units. It is the need of developed and provided with
the absence of requisite the hour to evolve multi- basic infrastructures and used
permission and approvals to pronged strategies and bring all for creating affordable housing,
redevelop. Strategic stake holders on the same either by the parastatal agencies
development of such pockets in platform to ensure adequate or as a joint venture, on PPP
a time bound basis can help in supply of serviced land at model.
bringing large amount of land in affordable cost. Focus of housing Changing Typology of Housing
the urban market, for creating the poor should revolve around from Plo ed to Group Housing
large stock of affordable sourcing adequate land at
Group Housing is cost-effective,
housing. appropriate place at an
since prefabrication technologies
OPTIONS FOR MAKING affordable cost and making can be used for mass
CITIES SLUM FREE optimum use of available land construction (Figure 4):
resource, to create cost-effective
Limitations imposed by land, promotes optimum utilization of
and affordable housing.
poverty, materials, construction land resource; minimizes land
technologies, skilled manpower, Redefining Master Plans in speculation; supports community
limited housing options, non- Intent, Contents and Scope living; and optimizes cost of
involvement of stakeholders/ Most of the Master Plans and basic services and amenities.
private sector and inadequate Development Plans do not Group Housing can be
financial resources, have provide space for the informal appropriately leveraged for
emerged as the major road- sector. In the absence of any creating large housing stock at
blocks in ensuring adequate dedicated area, informal sector minimal cost. Coupled with
supply of housing for poor. has to compete with formal livelihood options, such
Considering the high cost of sector for finding space. Due to development may prove to be
urban land; non-availability of high land cost and poor major game changer for
developed land; complexity and affordability, informal sector rationalizing the employment,
resource intensive nature of remains excluded from the urban growth and development.
housing; and ever-growing urban land market and have Making Optimum Use of Cross
mismatch between demand and li le option but to look for - subsidization
supply; creating appropriate whatever cities can offer them
For promoting affordable
quantity and quality of housing outside the planning process.
housing on large scale, cross-
for urban poor, remains a most This leads to haphazard,
subsidization has been leveraged
formidable challenge. Various unplanned development and
by numerous cities globally.
options which could be mushrooming of slums and
Cross- subsidization can be used
leveraged to make urban India squa er se lements. Informal
for both land and housing.
slum-free have been enumerated sector needs to be made an
Using this mechanism, Hong
below: integral part of the city planning
Kong has resolved problem of
Making Cost of Land Realistic and development process. affordable housing by leveraging
and Rational Sufficient area needs to be the public and private sector
identified for housing and
With land cost constituting 20-50 resources. Cross-subsidization to
working of the urban poor and
per cent of the cost of a house, the extent of 45% of the market
rural migrants in the Master

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