microHome: Affordable Housing and Shelter
Massive housing shortages in India force over 62 million people to live in slums or slum-like settlements and render 10 million people homeless. mHs follows an interdisciplinary approach to design, community and finance- creating viable housing options for urban poor on THEIR terms. The solution involves: a) Working with micro finance institutions to ensure that home improvement loans have an added innovative technical services affordable to clients. b) The rental solution will be a dormitory offering on operational sustainable economic model through collection of daily user charges and rehabilitation of un-utilized buildings.
I am so saddened to find that such a large part of some societies are just so poor. I wish that governments could come up with a solution that the populus and the rich could agree on. The rich sometimes are the cause of abject poverty because in an economic downturn they refuse to take less money for their product. Large insuance companies further squeeze the impoverished to deny service so as to save money. I wish you great success and highly respect you for your motives to help our fellow human beings.
I like the dormitory + self sustaining community thing. Sound like a scaled down version of the kibbutz model, though India has too many social disparities to make it easy to work.
Another option is to create affordable privacy through roto-moulded or composite plastic structures. Puts a roof over your head that wont collapse, because of the wall and column joinery, and is tear-down-able in days if the entire community has to move another 5km because the city expanded.
None of this of course would have been a problem if the government and those with means (money) stopped thinking like Donald Trump. Real Estate should not be anything more than a commodity – no speculation, no investment, and available in abundance. But we’re too far down the trump path to turn back.