Relaxing the Planning Standards of Housing Scheme: An Approach to Enhance Affordability of Poor

Abstract

Affordable housing is growing as major concern in the world with incremental increase in urban population and substandard provision of housing for low income sector. We can diminish housing shortage by Improving bidding power of poor for housing. Household income and expenditures are directly influential towards housing cost, so there is a need of little compromised standards for low income housing scheme. Different low cost housing scheme projects which were initiated, previously, could not serve their foremost purpose. The research attempts to chalk down planning standards which can be compromised meaningfully, in order to lower down cost of land for housing schemes by reviewing the planning standards for private development schemes in Punjab. Findings of the research shows that an increased saleable area and less housing unit cost estimates are the effective ways, which can contribute significantly to achieve objectives of low income housing