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Affordable housing

  • How Community Land Reserves run by a board could provide affordable housing in India’s cities

    How Community Land Reserves run by a board could provide affordable housing in India’s cities

    Shirish B Patel
    · Aug 31, 2024 · 09:00 am
  • The National Land Monetization Corporation could mean the end of liveable cities

    The National Land Monetization Corporation could mean the end of liveable cities

    Shirish B Patel
    · Mar 21, 2022 · 07:30 am
  • Union Cabinet approves development of rental housing complexes for urban migrants, poor

    Union Cabinet approves development of rental housing complexes for urban migrants, poor

    Scroll Staff
    · Jul 08, 2020 · 06:21 pm
  • Can Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana really solve urban India’s housing crisis?

    Can Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana really solve urban India’s housing crisis?

    Aarefa Johari
    · Oct 08, 2018 · 09:00 am
  • As Egypt sets out to build a new capital, how can it also move away from inequality and segregation?

    As Egypt sets out to build a new capital, how can it also move away from inequality and segregation?

    Nuno Pinto, The Conversation Aya Badawy, The Conversation
    · Sep 27, 2018 · 09:30 pm
  • Interview: Mumbai’s dream of affordable homes is a real possibility, says urban planner PK Das

    Interview: Mumbai’s dream of affordable homes is a real possibility, says urban planner PK Das

    Aarefa Johari
    · Sep 19, 2018 · 09:00 am
  • Video: Why half of Mumbai lives in slums even as 500,000 houses lie empty

    Video: Why half of Mumbai lives in slums even as 500,000 houses lie empty

    Shone Satheesh
    · May 13, 2018 · 10:17 am
  • Video: How McDonald’s came to be a shelter provider for the homeless in Hong Kong

    Video: How McDonald’s came to be a shelter provider for the homeless in Hong Kong

    Reuters
    · Feb 04, 2018 · 07:00 pm
  • Housing for all by 2022? An ambitious scheme in India is showing early signs of success

    Housing for all by 2022? An ambitious scheme in India is showing early signs of success

    Anupam Gupta
    · Jul 01, 2017 · 05:30 pm
  • Budget fine print: A Rs 2-crore home in Mumbai could qualify for affordable housing subsidies

    Budget fine print: A Rs 2-crore home in Mumbai could qualify for affordable housing subsidies

    Gurbir Singh
    · Feb 09, 2017 · 08:00 am
  • Does Mumbai really need 11 lakh more houses?

    Does Mumbai really need 11 lakh more houses?

    Hussain Indorewala
    · Mar 22, 2016 · 02:30 pm