The draft policy has two components: social rental housing for urban poor and market driven rental housing.
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) is working on a National Urban Rental Housing Policy (NURHP) to alleviate housing shortage in urban areas by encouraging renting of homes as millions of houses lie vacant across the country.
In written reply to a question in Lok Sabha on Tuesday, Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said, "Since land and colonisation are state subjects, the matter relating to eviction of tenants by landlords comes under the purview of the rental laws/ by-laws of states and Union Territories. However, in order to create a vibrant, sustainable and inclusive rental housing market in the country, the ministry is preparing a national urban housing policy."
According to a report, 27.5 per cent of urban residents across the country are living in rented houses. Daman and Diu, Sikkim, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli are among the top ones in the list with more than 60 per cent residents living in rented accommodations. In Goa, Karnataka, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Chandigarh, and Arunachal Pradesh 40 per cent and above residents are on rented houses.
When asked, officials said that the ministry is ready with a draft of a national policy on rental housing in urban area.
The draft policy has two components: social rental housing for urban poor and market driven rental housing.
Ministry officials said that social rental housing is targeted at the economically weaker sections, low-income groups as well as the section defined as 'tenants by constraint' which includes the urban poor belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other backward classes, migrants, transgenders and senior citizen.
While states and UTs such as Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh and Gujarat have their own rental housing policies, these have failed to check the spread of informal housing.
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