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What India Needs To Deliver On Modi’s Low-Cost Rental Housing Promise
Failed rental housing plans in India and successes elsewhere can help make it work.
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A BBD Chawl in Mumbai. (Source: BloombergQuint)
As India ordered 130 crore people to stay at home to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, the nation’s biggest migration since Partition followed. A stream of workers poured out on the roads, braving baton-swinging cops and the highly infectious virus. Men, women, children, and elderly, lugging bare essentials, set off for their homes hundreds of kilometres away. Hiding in cement mixers, stuffed in the back of trucks, on bicycles, rickshaw...
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