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operations like land acquisition, different households' categories formulation of these projects.
planning and designing, on the basis of economic, The affordable housing projects
financing becomes a tedious demographic and social factors. have two dimensions, the
process. This boils down to The affordable housing Policy substantial & insubstantial. The
delivery of the affordable project needs to be drafted as a part of insubstantial dimension includes
which is not relevant to the the metropolitan development social and economic aspects
context of the metropolis. In plan, with powers of land associated to housing and its
Chennai for instance, the acquisition and disposal to an affordability to all income
housing colonies were set up Agency which prioritizes groups present in metropolis.
with the assistance of world affordable housing and has The substantial dimension
bank. These colonies were policy making and executionary includes physical aspects such as
established on land reclaimed powers. The distribution of land, location, proximity to physical
from a natural water channel. its allocation across the and social infrastructure, etc.
The development of residential affordable housing projects in a The metropolitan planning
pockets, without understanding metropolis should be done approach in India can include
the local land topography, through the dialogue within projections for the next 20 years.
results in instances of flooding municipalities and other urban For the affordable housing to be
and water clogging, as a regular local bodies of the metropolis provided, the number of homes
feature during monsoon. In established by the respective required for the next 20 years
2019, heavy rainfall caused metropolitan development shall be projected.
major floods in Chennai as the authority. As area-based
The quantification of affordable
natural water drains were strategies and respective
housing stock to be proposed in
blocked. This example shows us development plans are to be
a metropolis is the aggregate of
why we need metropolitan formulated by respective urban
decrease due to migration,
authorities to look after their local bodies, their intervention
dilapidated housing, kutcha
own affordable & other housing becomes crucial. The
housing etc.; increase in
projects. distribution of the land for
population; increase in number
THE WAY FORWARD – Key affordable housing projects can of households and families
Actions be done using parameters such because of reduction in
as the population density, trends
Housing is a metropolitan issue, respective sizes. This
of development, strategic
like transportation and quantification must be done on
distribution according to the
environmental improvement. an annual basis for monitoring
priorities of the plan such as
However, unlike with these, a and redressal of grievances. The
environmental plan, transport
regional approach to housing building regulations such as
accessibility etc.; political
policy has been largely a non- heights shall be fixed differently
distribution after agreement on
starter, despite its importance. for projects with different
the proportion of the previous
Demand structuring for housing typologies ranging from
three. The public-private
affordable housing is a key to high density housing to low
partnerships can be established
analyze the type of policy density housing. The assessment
for development and
interventions required for of affordable housing results

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