A 6-page document discussing the state affordable housing in India, and how so far the design model for affordable housing has been to compress a home into a single room. The document discusses how the Indian g...

Housing for the poor and low-income households in urban India has failed to keep up with our rapid urbanization. The government estimates a shortage of more than 18 million houses, primarily among the EWS and t...

A 3-page document on an Indian superstition of constructing a house. Being a country where most of the citizens are driven by superstitious beliefs, practicality takes a back seat sometimes. It’s not just restr...

A 7-page document on urban development needed for growth. Cities are engines of growth. Although just over 30 percent of Indians live in cities, they contribute more than 60 percent to the country’s GDP and 80 ...

A 100-page report by NHB, India on the trend and progress of housing in India in 2013 discussing issues like an overview of the Indian housing sector, the current policy environment for housing and housing fina...

Housing is a basic human need. Besides providing economic and social security, a house is also an “asset” that can act as collateral for other borrowings to support and supplement other means of inc...

The SA Region represents one out of four persons and one out of two poor on the planet. It is among the lowest in terms of Mortgage Finance (Average Mortgage Debt to GDP Ratio 3.3). Region is faced with a massi...

A 40-page document on the state of the low-income housing market. Housing for the urban poor in India has failed to keep up with rapid urbanization. This has led to low-income families living in cramped, sub-st...

An 8-page document introduces and outlines the concept of a Special Residential Zone (SRZ) as a viable and compelling solution to tackle the compounding problem of affordable housing on a pan-India basis. The p...

An 8-page document about the characteristics of cities. Cities have to become smarter for 2 key reasons-first, key urban center has to be enabled for propelling growth and hence greater wealth creation for the ...

A 12-page document on the slums of Nagpur, India with maps and photographs.

A 10-page document about SEWA Bank of India. Self-Employed Women’s Association – the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) was established in 1972 in Ahmedabad City as a trade union with the goal of or...

A 2-page document on green building projects. A green building is a result of a design philosophy that focuses on increasing the efficiency of resource usage like energy, water, and materials, while minimizing ...

A 52-page document of study on housing microfinance, commissioned by the National Housing Bank (NHB), India,  and the Department for International Development (“DFID”) with the objectives to evaluate the perfor...

A 2-page document on the role construction industry in the Indian economy. India’s forthcoming wave of slick contemporary architecture, beyond office buildings, symbolizes the Asian nation’s rocketi...

A 5-page document about various types of urban and rural housing schemes of India, housing policies in force in various states, and various types of paper works required for availing finance, etc.

A 27-page Document Model Residential Tenancy Act, 2011 for Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), a government housing scheme in India.

An 85-page document about the socio-economic snapshot, demand for Housing, housing conditions in India, the evolution of housing policies through successive five-year plans, planned investments in housing durin...

The Technical Group on Estimation of Housing Shortage has been constituted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation vide Office Memorandum No. N11013/1/2006-H.I dated 28th July 2006 under the Ch...

This document is a gazette notification of the Indian Government of regulations titled Securities and Exchange Board of India (Real Estate Investment Trusts) Regulations.