Fourteenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment

Abstract

The condition of urban poor living in various slums in Indian cities are not showing significant improvement even after multiple efforts have been made by the various state and the central government through their policies and programmes. Popular approach for slum intervention of recent decades has been replacing or relocating slums with multi-stories buildings. The post occupancy evaluations have found that, the residents are have significant satisfaction with such interventions. Many newly constructed buildings are reported unoccupied as targeted beneficiaries do not wants to shift in such housing for multiple reasons. The major cause for less acceptance towards recent public housing is related to their economic disruption. it is like loss of job and income opportunities and additional financial burden. Similarly, this may also be considered as financial loss for the providers in form of investment made in the construction and development for such unoccupied housing for urban poor. On other hand, various state and central government are facilitating urban poor through many social welfare schemes such as, livelihood mission, credit link subsidy, employment assistance, child and women health care, Free education and training, skill development, widow and elderly pension, etc. Overall, despite of flooding huge money and financial investment through various channels, the target to uplift the life of slum dwellers at par with the non-slum population is still a dream. My research has evolved a micro-economic model particularly for occupation based slum pockets in India.