What are the basic need of a human ????

Roti

Kapda

Makan or housing

We are dealing with Housing / Makan in this presentation

Contents:

1. Existing context of housing demand2. Normative framework to implementation3. Case study

What is the scenario of India's housing sector ????

MIG&HIG constitutes only 0.16% urban population

EWS AND LIGconstitutes 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

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Urban India: Growth in Population & Slum Population

• Decadal Urban Population Growth 40%

• Decadal Metro-Population Growth 79%

• Decadal Slum Population Growth 70%

DEMAND INCREASING

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Total Housing ShortageHousing 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

SUPPLY ACTUAL NEED

How to bring down

the gap of

demand and Supply

?

Normative Framework to Implementation

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.

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)

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.

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

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

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

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.

Thank you ………