It is a paradox that the number of homeless squatters and slum dwellers in Indian cities is increasing in proportion to public housing programmes. In spite of ever increasing investment in housing sector, the problem remains stupendous. It is necessary, therefore, to have a hard look at the ongoing policies, processes, plans and programmes and evolve alternative approaches for housing delivery. Describing the growth and rehabilitation of slum in Delhi, it offers an elaborate discussion on community-based rehousing, Integrated Housing and Slum Development Programme, security of land tenure, public housing transformation, and role of private sector in social housing. It also deals with infrastructure development, regularization of unauthorized colonies, emergency shelter housing development and design, systems-based housing production, and cost reduction in construction of shelter. Various policy documents related to slum rehabilitation have been annexed in a CD as well.
A. K. Jain, an architect and town planner, is a member of the advisory board of UN-Habitat. He is a Fellow of the Eastern Asia Region Organisation for Planning and Housing (EAROPH), International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISoCaRP), Indian Institute of Architects, Institute of Town Planners and the Indian Buildings Congress. He studied at Delhi School of Planning and Architecture, Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, Rotterdam and University of Birmingham. He is on Editorial Board of the International Journal of Environmental Studies (UK). As Commissioner Planning, Delhi Development Authority, he worked on the Master Plan for Delhi 2021, besides other planning and infrastructure projects. Mr. Jain is a visiting faculty at Delhi School of Planning and Architecture and has authored several papers and books including Urban Housing and Slums and Urban Land Policy and Public-Private Partnerships.
Introduction -- Shelter for the Urban Poor -- Growth and Rehabilitation of Slums in Delhi -- Community Based Slum Rehousing -- Integrated Housing and Slum Development Programme (IHSDP) -- Rehabilitation of Slum Dwellers: Mumbai -- Security of Land Tenure -- Public Housing Transformation -- Policy to Incentivise Private Sector in Social Housing -- Towards Housing for All -- Infrastructure Services and Housing Development -- Growth and Regularisation of Unauthorised Colonies -- The Emergency Shelter -- Housing Development and Design -- 'Systems' based Housing Production -- Cost Reduction in Construction of Shelter
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