Resettlement - Question of Cities

Built for profit, not people: Political capture, failure of slum rehab in Mumbai

Mumbai’s Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) scheme’s failure is the deliberate result of its structure in which the primary actors – the state government, the real estate developers, and slum residents – have diverging objectives. Only 2.74 lakh units were delivered…

Chennai: How the marginalised were resettled in city’s margins

In North Madras, gentrification and caste dispossession are not parallel processes; they are the same process, written in concrete. The built environment…

In Vijayawada, resettlement means poorer life and health

Resettlement colonies like RR Peta in Vijayawada give displaced poor families pucca houses that beat huts or shacks, but poor design, missing…

‘They sent us to a human dumping ground to die,’ say women in Mumbai’s resettlement colonies

M-East civic ward, the city’s margins with garbage dumps and landfills, has more than 13 resettlement colonies with 60-70 buildings in each.…

Building a place to call home: Reports on resettlement and rehabilitation

Resettlement of people displaced by various projects in the country has a number to it but the thousands or lakhs, or maybe…

Built for profit, not people: Political capture, failure of slum rehab in Mumbai

Chennai: How the marginalised were resettled in city’s margins

In Vijayawada, resettlement means poorer life and health

‘They sent us to a human dumping ground to die,’ say women in Mumbai’s resettlement colonies

Building a place to call home: Reports on resettlement and rehabilitation

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