This year’s budget witnessed some important shifts in affordable housing, urban sanitation and public health, and transportation.
Affordable Housing
The COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on urban issues such as inadequate housing, poor waste management and sanitation, lack o...
This New Indian Express article cites IDFC Institute's India Infrastructure Report. Excerpts:
"Chennai’s residential yield, a component of net return a landlord can get by investing in property, is much higher than in cities such as Delhi and Mumbai, according to a rep...
Place, a Thomson Reuters Foundation Initiative quotes Vaidehi Tandel, Junior Fellow at IDFC Institute on affordable housing shortage and on rental vouchers.
"The voucher, which entails a direct transfer of cash to offset some or all of the rent, may be the most viable option," Tandel said.
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Reuben Abraham, CEO and Senior Fellow, and Pritika Hingorani, Deputy Director at IDFC Institute, speak on Urbanisation and Affordable Housing at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) in June 2017....
Alex Tabarrok, Resident Senior Fellow, IDFC Institute writes about the vacant housing conundrum in Mumbai in his widely read blog, Marginal Revolution. He uses data from an IDFC Institute report on affordable housing, which has been co-authored by Sahil Gandhi and Meenaz Munshi.
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This Market Review Report by Motilal Oswal quotes Deputy Director Pritika Hingorani, Senior Associate Meenaz Munshi, and Associate Rohan Shridhar's work on affordable housing. Excerpts:
"The Economic Survey 2016-17 describes an India on the move. Migration has almost doubled, to a...
India's huge housing deficit, especailly in the lower income bracket, calls for a serious relook at the rental housing regime. This article in Swarjya by Vivek Kaul, talks of the critical need for rental housing reform if India's housing for all by 2022 target is to be fulfilled....
This year's Pritzker Prize winner, Alejandro Aravena, has demonstrated how the social housing problem can be addressed. This New York Times article explains:
"... Mr. Aravena’s work “gives economic opportunity to the less privileged, mitigates the effects of natural disasters,...
IDFC Institute hosted a private roundtable on “Facilitating an Easy Market for Affordable Housing Development in India” with developers, financiers, policy experts, and academics. This Briefing Paper summarises the key points raised, supporting the need for a more rationalised, consistent, ...
Heralding technological advancements that could change the business model of the real estate and construction industries, and that could make affordable housing far more viable, a developer in China built a 57-story mixed-use building in 19 days using prefabricated brick.
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