India has started talking about Smart Cities. Over the past decade, focus had been on Urban Renewal and Slum Up-gradation. Be it smart cities or urban renewal / regeneration or slum up-gradation; Urban Housing proves to be one of the most difficult challenge for a town planner. Irrespective of who is providing housing, the Urban Local Body, the private developers / builders or a combination of both, housing gap assessment is necessary for all of the cases.
This note is an attempt towards the methodology for estimating housing gap for a city. Though the same may provide for a good assessment from the point of view of a research level thesis, it may need much more detailing for an urban planner in-charge of a city.
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