Housing impacts every indicator of human development. Homelessness, housing poverty and illegality negatively impact economic opportunities, water supply, sanitation, health, education as well as psycho-logical and social wellbeing of people. However, even after 67 years of Independence, housing is still not a fundamental right in India, just like the Right to Education or the Right to Information. Efforts in the mid 19805 to enshrine the Right to Housing in the constitution failed and have not been attempted since then. Only when people could to ask fundamental questions such as right to affordable housing that are at the core of our society, can we achieve the results worthy of our nation. It is with this intention that the questions below are posed for, and to all the stakeholders in affordable housing in India. As the Government of India has set the goal of providing affordable housing for all by 2022, this paper suggests revisiting the social housing priorities in India and learning form the precedents that have proven successful in India and abroad. Arguing through a set of eight fundamental questions posed to all stakeholders in affordable housing, the paper calls for according housing a fundamental right status and concludes that given the huge shortage of urban housing in India, especially for the economically weaker sections and lower income groups of the society, major intervention is needed now in affordable housing before the problem gets worse, due to projected increases in urban population. More....  

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