Accessible Housing for South Asia [electronic resource] : Needs, Implementation and Impacts / edited by Amitabh Kundu, Tomaz Ponce Dentinho, Habibullah Magsi, Kanika Basu, Sumana Bandyopadhyay.

Introduction to Accessible Housing -- Housing for All: From Rhetoric to A Reality Check on Slum Statistics for operationalising the Flagship missions in India -- India's poor and better-off urban citizens: Cycles of proximity and segregation -- Housing Inequality by Social Groups, Gender, and Place of Residence: A District-Level Geospatial Analysis in India -- Neoliberalism and Housing Affordability Crisis in Dhaka where Market Enabling Efforts Failed -- Increasing Housing Demand in Pakistan -- A Review of Rural Housing Schemes in India for Sustainable Habitats -- Sheltering Urban Poor: Looking for a New Approach -- A Detailed Study on the Mud-Bonded Masonry Houses in Nepal both before and after 2015 Gorkha Earthquake -- A road to recovery: Housing reconstruction in Bhaktapur Nepal post the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake -- Housing in Smart City - The Emperor has No Clothes -- Affordable Housing in Pakistan: The Policy and Institutional Imperatives -- Multilocational Householding: Implications for Urban Development in Pakistan -- Naya Pakistan Housing Program: An Analytical Study of Mortgage-Backed Security Model and Legal Framework for Low-Cost Accessible Housing Scheme in Pakistan -- Rural Housing Programme (Indira Awaas Yojana) in West Bengal, India: Trends of Achievements.

This book deals with important issues related to urban housing in South Asia. It analyses various aspects of housing, including spatial and temporal requirements and needs, as well as the challenges of implementing housing projects, such as financial feasibility of estate development projects and housing design. Finally, it discusses the socio-economic and environmental impacts of the rapid urban housing development in South Asia. Written by experts from various disciplines, the book presents several case studies that address issues such as housing provision; legislative, financial and technical support; access to employment opportunities and markets; the cumulative impact on gentrification; exclusion and spatial equity; and the economic, social and environmental sustainability of urban tissue. Researchers, housing planners, and policy makers will find this book a valuable resource in meeting the demand for affordable and sustainable housing and overcoming housing shortages in developing countries.