The state of housing: What CSE research tells us about rents in Indian cities

Affordable rental housing has emerged as the new way to achieve the objective of housing for all 

Housing for all still a distant dream

How to design, build an eco-friendly and low-cost urban mud house

Veena Lal, who runs a charitable society for destitute children by the name of Karm Marg, has made it possible

Good housekeeping

Traditional architecture makes for better homes

Photo-copy

If this is world's best in photojournalism, then it is shocking. Make no mistakes. Most of the photographs, featured at the Annual World Press …

Look within

And not ape the disaster management laws of other nations

Turn to nature

Mangroves and other vegetation can help resist tsunamis

Badly prepared

Disaster preparedness should be built into development programmes

Berlin’s grassroots plan to renationalise up to 200,000 ex-council homes from corporate landlords

Truth about PM’s 'Housing for All' scheme: it is far off target

Eighteen months and Rs 4,275.31 crores later, not even 0.1 per cent of the project could be completed

This Tamil Nadu couple built a 1600 sq feet mud house with just Rs 25 lakh

Akhila, a natural farmer and Surendran, a planning manager from Tamil Nadu embarked on an adventure together to create a 1600 square feet mud …

A house for the islander

Illogical plans for post-tsunami housing on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands omen trouble

A utlitarian look at cheap housing

LOW-COST HOUSING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES G C Mathur Publisher: Centre for Science & Technology of the Non-aligned and Other Developing …

Land use can be changed

Polluted groundwater cannot

COVID-19 lockdown shows why India needs social rental housing

Poor, low-income population needs rents below market rates

Maharashtra draft urban housing policy not enough

GeeliMitti: Busting the myths about mud houses

Mud houses can outlive cement houses by a century

How can Delhi provide affordable housing near transit to its poor

India’s capital and other metros have performed woefully in this regard, even as their global counterparts have progressed 

Shock absorbers

Earthquake-resistant buildings minimise damage as a 6.8 Richter earthquake rocks Seattle

Drab public housing ideal for a climate retrofit

Eastern Europe’s ubiquitous prefab housing blocks have potential for mass climate change adaptation

Lessons from COVID-19: Need better demand estimation factors to provide housing for all

Physical distancing as well as home quarantining have changed the housing standardisation game; an overhaul is needed

Work matters

Proximity to workplace determines housing decisions of slum dwellers, finds a new study

Owning up

The MP government makes amends for the Dewas killing

Reinforced

Building code made stronger

Simply Put: Flagging India’s housing problem