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POLICY REVIEW

into number of dwelling units cities further while transforming authorities and the
required and ultimately helps in them into metropolises. The establishment of metropolitan
determining the area of land population residing in these scale (1:50000) will ease off the
required for affordable housing cities is creating massive difficulties in processes like land
projects. The assessment may demand for housing stock. As acquisition, financing, planning
help in assigning the location of migrants and economically & designing while formulating
land for each typology of weaker sections can not afford and delivering the affordable
housing. The allocation of the housing available at market housing projects. The affordable
housing typologies can be made rates, there is a strict need to housing demand in Indian
in accordance with the demand formulate affordable housing metropolises is currently being
preferences of the buyers or the projects in India with precision dealt at an urban scale, which is
applicants. The extrapolation of and efficacy. technicallyfeasible. This short-
tendencies, market trends and However, the affordable housing sightedness can only be
behaviors of buyers shall be projects have been inefficient overcome with a metropolitan
done for the same. because of the scale at which housing approach that will
CONCLUSION they were planned and the way address all segments of the

Developing affordable housing they were delivered. The policy housing market, each with its
on a large scale is the greatest approach has been fragmented specific policy, though
challenge in urban India today, and exact assessment of housing, integrated in financial, social,
and it is also an opportunity as a land and budget requirements land-use at the metropolitan
solution to expanding cities, have been missing, which have scale. Affordable housing thus
proliferation of slums, resulted in under supply of calls for collaborative, multi-
unorganized real estate housing. As cities have pronged and concerted efforts
development and unplanned transformed into metropolises, from all stakeholders at a
growth. It is vital that certain there is a need to induce metropolitan scale. Hence,
critical issues are addressed metropolitan discipline in the reviewing our policies, institu-
urgently to make affordable planning process as a tionalizing the metropolitan
housing a possibility. While metropolitan housing approach planning becomes vital to a ain
Indian cities like Delhi, Mumbai, can address all segments of the the fulfillment of the affordable
Chennai, Hyderabad etc. have housing market, each with its housing demands in India.
crossed the 30-lakh mark, cities correct specific policy, integrated
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