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Wanted: Safe and affordable housing for working women in cities

The basic human right to safe and affordable housing eludes most working women in cities. They are forced to submit to scrutinising interviews during their house search and forced to agree with a laundry list of conditions while signing the…
By Jashvitha DhageyOctober 21, 2022
  • Built Environment
  • Housing
  • Inequality

The myths of ‘public trust’ and ‘affordable housing’ in speculative Mumbai

The development story of Mumbai rests on the routine breach of the ‘public trust doctrine’ which benefits the elite. The Maharashtra government,…
By Hussain IndorewalaSeptember 9, 2022
  • Housing
  • Land Use
  • Movements

Nivara Hakk then and now: The struggle for housing rights

As slums were demolished in massive operations and slum dwellers summarily evicted, often out of Bombay (as it was called till 1995),…
By Gurbir SinghSeptember 9, 2022
  • Built Environment
  • Housing
  • Land Use

“Mumbai’s housing laws maximise real estate potential, ignore people’s health”

The regulations are rooted in the building codes that were drawn up for the city after the plague of 1896 but, over…
By Jashvitha DhageySeptember 9, 2022
  • Built Environment
  • Housing
  • Land Use

(de)Coding Mumbai: A study of the city’s housing regulations

Architect Sameep Padora and his team “decoded” Mumbai by extensively studying houses and residents through Development Plans. The 18 case studies, spanning…
By Jashvitha DhageySeptember 9, 2022
  • Housing
  • Land Use
  • Urban Planning

Housing rights: Mill workers continue struggle for a roof

Forty years and counting – that’s how long the mill workers in Mumbai have been fighting for their dues. The mill strike…
By Dnyaneshwari BurghateSeptember 9, 2022
  • Built Environment
  • Housing
  • Inequality

A tall order: Housing as part of the ‘Right to the City’ is long, hard work

The Delhi High Court’s judgment in the Shakur Basti petition in 2019 foregrounded the Right to the City for slum dwellers, bringing…
By Shobha SurinJune 17, 2022
  • Amenities
  • Built Environment
  • Green Zones

Cities, amenities, people: How they stack up

Everyone who lives in a city has the right to the city. It’s a no-brainer but rarely does a city’s infrastructure and amenities become accessible to all, even rarer is people’s participation in city-making. Why do so many in our…
By Jashvitha Dhagey and Rhea AntonyJune 17, 2022
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