Page 70 - HUDCO-SHELTER-APR21

POLICY REVIEW

adequate housing for all”' by in the 20th century along with proportional to the housing
2030. An integrated and the thought that metropolises demand, the necessity to
inclusive approach to housing require a different management increase housing stock grows.
which interlinks education, mode than cities. The According to the 2011 census,
employment, health and basic metropolises are of an the housing stock in urban India
and social services through intermediate scale between the stood at 78.48 million for 78.86
collaboration among cities and the states in the Indian million urban households
stakeholders is encouraged. context. The migration of people (Figure 1). Though the gap
According to the 2011 census, residing in the rural areas between household and housing
towards the urban, in quest of stock is narrowing, actual
there were 53 million plus cities
higher order facilities, be er shortage is high due to a certain
in India & a total of 12 cities near
quality of life, employment part of the current stock being
the 3 million mark. These cities
are bound to expand and grow opportunities, adequate physical dilapidated and people living in
over the coming years. As a as well as social infrastructure, is congested dwellings.
causing stress on availability of
ma er of fact, the cities are not According to the McKinsey
resources and basic
cities anymore. They have now Report (2010), India will have 40
infrastructure associated with
transformed into metropolises. percent of its population living
This transformational growth the housing present in cities. in urban areas with 68 cities with
requires different scale & level of According to census 2011, one million plus population
almost 20.5 million people
planning altogether as the (from 42 currently) by 2030. It
migrated from rural areas to
metropolises are fundamentally estimates that the demand for
urban areas whereas 14.3 million
different, more complex and affordable housing will increase
larger than the cities. people migrated from urban to 38 million housing units in
Metropolitan discipline in the areas to the other urban areas. 2030 from 19 million in 2012.
These numbers depict the extent
process of planning is a new
of migration in India. As the There exists a wide gap between
phenomenon that has appeared
growth in migration is directly the demand and supply of
housing (both in terms of
Figure 1: Urban Households, Housing stock and Housing shortages quantity and quality) in urban
in India, 1971-2011 India. As per the Report of the
Technical Group (TG-12) on
Estimation of Urban Housing
Shortage (2012), there has been a
huge gap in demand and supply
of urban housing in India. The
economically weaker sections
(EWS) and low-income group
(LIG) accounted for 96 per cent
of the total housing shortage in
India (Figure 2).
Source: Census of India

68 HUDCO-HSMI Publication