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With about one in six urban Indians living in informal squatter settlements, the need for an addi... more With about one in six urban Indians living in informal squatter settlements, the need for an additional number of affordable housing in India is growing exponentially. The Indian department of “Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation” (MoHUPA) launched its ambitious “Housing for All” scheme under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana(PMAY) in September 2015 with the goal to make India slum-free by 2022. This scheme is based on similar former programs and shows promise regarding the number of houses that will be built with the help of the government’s credit-linked subsidies for all incomegroups in India. However, the program has many shortcomings, especially from a people-centered perspective: beneficiaries are often perceived as passive, there are few empowerment measures in the scheme, access to benefits is exclusive, and long term effects are neglected. It is concluded that PMAY 2014 is mainly an image campaign for the government and lacks sustainable elements. Even there are many issues like a private partnership and investment which are neglected in a broader perspective.
This dissertation intends to suggest possible backdrop from this Housing for All scheme and suggest reforms on policy and also to increase private partnership investment in the scheme. The focus lies on potentials found in decentralized municipal policies, public-private partnerships for upgrading existing housing, as well as provide the housing shortage and providing basic facilities, and on beneficiary’s empowerment. These elements are discussed based on an inclusive and people-centered approach to development to speed up the scheme. The results of this discussion, analysis, and inference will then be abstracted into tentative suggestive guidelines on how to approach affordable housing in a developing country with private partnership and investments.

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With about one in six urban Indians living in informal squatter settlements, the need for an addi... more With about one in six urban Indians living in informal squatter settlements, the need for an additional number of affordable housing in India is growing exponentially. The Indian department of “Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation” (MoHUPA) launched its ambitious “Housing for All” scheme under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana(PMAY) in September 2015 with the goal to make India slum-free by 2022. This scheme is based on similar former programs and shows promise regarding the number of houses that will be built with the help of the government’s credit-linked subsidies for all incomegroups in India. However, the program has many shortcomings, especially from a people-centered perspective: beneficiaries are often perceived as passive, there are few empowerment measures in the scheme, access to benefits is exclusive, and long term effects are neglected. It is concluded that PMAY 2014 is mainly an image campaign for the government and lacks sustainable elements. Even there are many issues like a private partnership and investment which are neglected in a broader perspective.
This dissertation intends to suggest possible backdrop from this Housing for All scheme and suggest reforms on policy and also to increase private partnership investment in the scheme. The focus lies on potentials found in decentralized municipal policies, public-private partnerships for upgrading existing housing, as well as provide the housing shortage and providing basic facilities, and on beneficiary’s empowerment. These elements are discussed based on an inclusive and people-centered approach to development to speed up the scheme. The results of this discussion, analysis, and inference will then be abstracted into tentative suggestive guidelines on how to approach affordable housing in a developing country with private partnership and investments.

With about one in six urban Indians living in informal squatter settlements, the need for an addi... more With about one in six urban Indians living in informal squatter settlements, the need for an additional number of affordable housing in India is growing exponentially. The Indian department of “Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation” (MoHUPA) launched its ambitious “Housing for All” scheme under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana(PMAY) in September 2015 with the goal to make India slum-free by 2022. This scheme is based on similar former programs and shows promise regarding the number of houses that will be built with the help of the government’s credit-linked subsidies for all incomegroups in India. However, the program has many shortcomings, especially from a people-centered perspective: beneficiaries are often perceived as passive, there are few empowerment measures in the scheme, access to benefits is exclusive, and long term effects are neglected. It is concluded that PMAY 2014 is mainly an image campaign for the government and lacks sustainable elements. Even there are many issues like a private partnership and investment which are neglected in a broader perspective.
This dissertation intends to suggest possible backdrop from this Housing for All scheme and suggest reforms on policy and also to increase private partnership investment in the scheme. The focus lies on potentials found in decentralized municipal policies, public-private partnerships for upgrading existing housing, as well as provide the housing shortage and providing basic facilities, and on beneficiary’s empowerment. These elements are discussed based on an inclusive and people-centered approach to development to speed up the scheme. The results of this discussion, analysis, and inference will then be abstracted into tentative suggestive guidelines on how to approach affordable housing in a developing country with private partnership and investments.

With about one in six urban Indians living in informal squatter settlements, the need for an addi... more With about one in six urban Indians living in informal squatter settlements, the need for an additional number of affordable housing in India is growing exponentially. The Indian department of “Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation” (MoHUPA) launched its ambitious “Housing for All” scheme under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana(PMAY) in September 2015 with the goal to make India slum-free by 2022. This scheme is based on similar former programs and shows promise regarding the number of houses that will be built with the help of the government’s credit-linked subsidies for all incomegroups in India. However, the program has many shortcomings, especially from a people-centered perspective: beneficiaries are often perceived as passive, there are few empowerment measures in the scheme, access to benefits is exclusive, and long term effects are neglected. It is concluded that PMAY 2014 is mainly an image campaign for the government and lacks sustainable elements. Even there are many issues like a private partnership and investment which are neglected in a broader perspective.
This dissertation intends to suggest possible backdrop from this Housing for All scheme and suggest reforms on policy and also to increase private partnership investment in the scheme. The focus lies on potentials found in decentralized municipal policies, public-private partnerships for upgrading existing housing, as well as provide the housing shortage and providing basic facilities, and on beneficiary’s empowerment. These elements are discussed based on an inclusive and people-centered approach to development to speed up the scheme. The results of this discussion, analysis, and inference will then be abstracted into tentative suggestive guidelines on how to approach affordable housing in a developing country with private partnership and investments.