• ISBN13: 9788126939916
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Economics
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: December 11, 2024
• Pages: 270
• Original Price: INR 1295.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 470 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): N/A

India is undoubtedly urbanising, especially since 1991. However, many urban families are facing housing poverty and struggling to access safe drinking water, electricity, sanitation and other basic amenities. India’s Urban Housing and Poverty: Feasible and Sustainable Housing Development Interventions covers the overall situation of the institutional players in urban settlements and public policy changes with a focus on human settlement issues and the problem of a consistently degrading environment. It makes extensive use of relevant data on the concerned topics and analyses core issues at the macro level. It covers the history of housing development policies, as well as policies for the urban poor, since the 1950s.

The book offers recommendations for sustainable and equitable urban growth, discussing institutional growth in the housing sector, operations in response to the housing needs and development governance. It stresses on allotting equal importance to the redevelopment of dilapidated stock and the development of new housing units with renewed efforts towards slum improvement and a rejuvenation of the cooperative housing movement.

Prof. M. Mahadeva obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees, as well as his Ph.D. in Economics (1993), from the University of Mysore. Since then, he has had a vibrant career as a teacher, researcher and administrator, working with a wide variety of institutes. He played a crucial part in the preparation and implementation of the Twelfth Five Year Plan and has served as a visiting fellow in several overseas institutions, including the University of Bristol, UK (2008–2009) and the University of Toronto, Canada (2000–2001). He is currently Professor at the Institute of Finance and International Management (IFIM), Bengaluru.