ABSTRACT
In India, slums have undergone a transformational process since the 1950s when independent India started incorporating Slums within the urban policy. After 75 years of several slum amenable policies, India’s current solution to control slums is slum rehabilitation housing (SRH). This chapter takes a deeper look at the why? How? What? and What-ifs of the slum rehabilitation housing in India. It discusses why the SRH solution was adopted, how the SRH is viewed and defined in policy discourse as the future of affordable housing options, the potential opportunities, challenges and risks of living in SRH and finally, what solutions are vital for realizing the potential of SRH. The Sustainable Design Group (https://www.sdgresearch.org/" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">https://www.sdgresearch.org/) at the University of Cambridge has done considerable work expanding and advancing the knowledge about slum rehabilitation housing. This chapter provides an overview of the existing knowledge on slum rehabilitation design and the potential to apply data-driven design to answer basic questions on Slum Rehabilitation Housing in India.
