- Affordable Housing Opportunities in Small Indian Cities- A Case study of Industrial Migrant   100 kb by    Ram, Kana | kgodha@gmail.com    Short Outline Affordable Housing Opportunities in Small Indian Cities- A Case study of Industrial Migrant Abstract Houses are the basic human need. It has been one of the priorities of the Government of India (GOI) right from the First Five Year Plan till date. Government has provided various fiscal incentives to promote housing on both, the demand and supply side. Since independence, a large number of schemes have been launched but target of affordable housing for all has not been achieved. What can be done to make housing more affordable? For the owner-occupied sector, lack of affordability is a problem for Lower Income Groups (LIG) and Middle Income Group (MIG) in most of the cities of the country. However, this paper shows that affordability is not a problem in small cities unlike metropolitan cities. Till now the main concerns are metropolitan cities and small cities are often neglected with respected to affordable housing. This paper argues that If we ignore our fast growing small cities now, which are potential metropolitan cities, then the future may become more critical in terms of providing affordable housing to inhabitants of these cities. The Government[simplequote]s excessive concern and focus on metropolitan cities as compared to small cities has to change for a balanced and sustainable future urban development. Keywords Housing Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2013: Frontiers of Planning - Evolving and declining models of city planning practice   Click to open the full paper as pdf document   Click to send an email to the author(s) of this paper