ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on access to land for housing purposes by different socio-economic groups, and the changing nature of land delivery mechanisms which operate within a system of three supply-agents/intermediaries – the private, the public and the co-operative sectors. Demand for housing in Lucknow City is responded to in two main ways – first, by supplying only land for housing and, second, by supplying built houses. A third option can be rental accommodation; however, without increasing the stock of housing the rental market stock will not increase rapidly. The enactment of the Urban Land Ceiling Act in 1976 was another tool used by the State to control and check the unequal possession of land in the urban land market in Lucknow, as well as in other cities throughout India. The Act stimulated the formation of co-operative housing societies, to prevent the requisition of land above the Ceiling.
