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POLICY REVIEW
RETHINKING AFFORDABLE HOUSING ON A
METROPOLITAN SCALE IN INDIA
MR. PIYUSH GIRGAONKAR e metropolitan areas in India are Discipline” in the planning process in India
constantly growing as more and more to attain the desired precision & delivery.
MS. AAKRITI SINGHAI people are migrating from rural to urban
areas because of several factors such as INTRODUCTION
growing economic activities, education Urbanization has caused rapid
and healthcare, availability of higher
order facilities etc. According to the 2011 migration to cities and caused
census, there were 53 million plus cities them to expand beyond their
in India & a total of 12 cities near the 3 own administrative borders,
million mark. ese cities are bound to resulting in creation of large
As a part of shifting the expand and grow over the coming years. metropolitan territories.
paradigm from the As Indian metropolises are at a stage of Metropolises are engines of
urban scale of planning massive transformation, the population growth and development which
to the metropolitan growth in them indicates that unplanned have significant impact on
spatial expansion in fringe areas and the
scale, affordable national and global economies.
development of satellite towns around
housing policies are However, this scale of
the inner cities is inevitable in the future.
required to be carved out
ese metropolises present major urbanization has caused
by comprehensively
planning challenges to planners tremendous stress on housing
considering the especially for ever growing demand for and infrastructure. Lack of
metropolitan context of affordable housing to its inhabitants. To housing options coupled with
the city. equip the metropolises for ful lling this
huge demand of affordable housing, this unaffordability force people to
live in substandard conditions,
paper aims to assess and understand
what “Affordable Housing” is in Indian and this remains a challenge
context, why there is a need to think of around the world. Governments
affordable housing at a metropolitan around the globe are concerned
scale rather than the urban scale as the about the sorry state of the most
'urban' scale of planning is different than basic human right and realizing
the 'metropolitan' scale. Since
KEYWORDS: Affordable Housing, metropolitan planning is a dynamic and the need for concrete steps to
Urbanization, Metropolitan Planning evolving process in which population tackle the issue. Habitat III in
Quito adopted the New Urban
Mr. Piyush Girgaonkar movements, economic variations,
demographic and social dynamism play Agenda, requiring states to
(piyushsandeep@outlook.com) is Founder,
an important role, this paper tries to promote “'national, sub-national
Plannogram India and Ms. Aakriti Singhai
highlight how the obstacles in provision and local housing policies that
(asinghai123@outlook.com) is Housing
of affordable housing can be removed by support the progressive
Analyst, CRP Affordable Housing, San
introducing the “Metropolitan
Diego CA. realization of the right to
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