India's housing shortage and strategies to address the needs of the urban poor
1. What are the basic need of a human ????
Roti
Kapda
Makan or housing
2. We are dealing with Housing / Makan in this
presentation
Contents:
1. Existing context of housing demand
2. Normative framework to implementation
3. Case study
3. What is the scenario of India's housing
sector ????
5. EWS AND LIG
constitutes only 99.8%
urban population
Total: 24.71 m 100.00%
EWS: 21.78 m 88.14%
LIG: 2.89 m 11.69%
MIG&HIG: 0.04 m
0.16%
More than 99% shortage is for EWS/LIG segments
6. 6
Urban India: Growth in Population & Slum Population
• Decadal Urban Population Growth 40%
• Decadal Metro-Population Growth 79%
• Decadal Slum Population Growth 70%
DEMAND INCREASING
7. 7
Total Housing Shortage
Housing shortage at the beginning of 11th
Five Year Plan (1.4.2007)
24.71 million dwelling
units
Additional Housing Requirement for the 11th
Plan ( 2007-2012)
1.82 million dwelling
units
Total housing requirement during 11th Plan
Period including the carried over housing
shortage
26.53 Million dwelling
units
DEMAND INCREASING
11. Identifying the beneficiaries
• Economically weaker sections.
• Urban poor who have already found shelter in formal authorized slum
Settlements,
• Currently residing in informal settlements (this could include those who are
residing on encroached land, unauthorized settlements and the like).
Finally,
The framework to brought within the purview of any concerted effort to provide
shelter to the poor.
12. Making land available
• The authorities to make access public as well as private land, for
economically and socially productive purposes.
• Earmarking land for developing low cost housing for EWS through master
plan needs to be taken up by the relevant authorities.
• Legal bottlenecks should be removed (the urban land ceiling and
regulation act)
13. CONSIDERING ENTITLEMENTS OF THE POOR
• Issue of entitlements should go beyond shelter.
• To that provision of basic services clean water and sanitation healthcare
facilities and education.
• Urban should consist issue of asset productivity.
For instance, in the rural context, issues related to livelihood are the prime
consideration.
Dharavi, considered to be “ city within city “ because of mix of residence and
work area and its strong relation within the slum boundary.
14. Aspects related to funding and financing housing for the urban poor
1. Mechanism for compensation while acquiring privately owned
land.
• By market driven
• Negotiated cash based compensation to higher fsi/far to tdr (or a
combination thereof).
2. Financing the actual construction of the dwelling units themselves.
• Financing through beneficiary contributions to support public
funding.
• Public private partnerships
Overcoming funding constraints
15. Existing context:
• 700,000 BPL
• 3,500,000 without income
to sustain themselves and
meet their basic needs
• diverse linguistic, ethnic
and religious
constituencies.
• high unemployment
• limited access to basic
services (including
healthcare and education).
• Household in irregular
tenure (pavement dwellers,
along railway tracks or
canals)
• highly vulnerable group
• low levels of literacy
Kolkata - city of joy
16. 1. Situation specific initiatives which will differ between municipalities.
2. Policy direction is deliberated at the state government level in collaboration with the
urban local bodies.
3. Empowering the municipalities to address issues relating to:
• Tenure,
• Making land available for housing the poor
• And public participation.
4. Development plan through a bottom-up participatory planning process
5. The development plans have
• Integrated view of infrastructure,
• Landuse
• Basic healthcare,
• Education,
• Livelihoods
• And local economic development.
Strategies to deal with situation
Approach from West Bengal in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area
17. 7 sub-components of the development plan have dealt with
• Land use,
• Housing
• And basic services to the urban poor.
8. Ensuring implementation:
• Making land available for housing for the E.W.S are addressed in the land use plan
• provision of housing as well as infrastructure and basic services in slum settlements are addressed
in the slum development plan.
• Issues related to livelihoods for the vulnerable are dealt with in the livelihoods development plan.
• Healthcare and education plans deal with providing basic health and education services and
facilities to the marginal sections of society.
• Municipalities having railway networks running through the municipal area, have taken up the
issue of resettlement and rehabilitation of the poor living in high risk squatter settlements.