Mass-Industrialized Housing to Combat Consistent Housing Shortage in Developing Countries: Towards an Appropriate System for India

The quality of living is influenced by many factors. In the developing countries the housing problem are manifold and key factor in influencing quality living. The mainstream formal housing needs a faster production system of housing maintaining quality of houses and economy to overcome the huge shortage. Government’s role has been changed to enabler from provider during last couple of decades and that is reflected in national plans. Overall 12% household (H/H) do not have livable house. Existing housing supply mechanism could not fulfill only 15 % on an average of total housing need per decade including the backlog and additional need for population increase. National Housing and Habitat Policy (NHHP) mentioned about the necessity of a faster housing supply and focused on prefabricated system built housing. Scope for appropriate prefabricated building system to fulfill the housing shortage in India must be reassessed in present context. This paper analyses the housing shortage and supply system, identifies the need of a faster system of housing delivery and attempts to determine the appropriate form and process for industrialized housing, which can cater the need, in Indian context. The growing concentration of the people in the urban areas is an obvious thing, which is visible in the urbanization trend through out the world. Within the 50 years of development, the world has seen th