ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to trace the policy shifts and continuities by analysing key national housing programmes implemented in the twenty first century. It argues that India’s housing transformation remains an unfinished agenda. The chapter outlines the advocacies dispensed by international agencies such as UN-Habitat and the World Bank and concurrent shifts in housing approaches in India. The lure of home ownership thus became central to promotion of housing as an investment commodity rather than a social good. Government intervention in housing in different periods of India’s history is characterized by the object of its emphasis rather than the degree of government involvement. The housing industry in India suggests the need for around 30 million units in all categories to house every Indian, which requires about 300,000 acres of land and half a trillion dollars of investment. Pradhanmantri Awas Yojana is the programme of the Prime Minister’s scheme, which is essentially a ‘Housing for All’ scheme.
