Affordable housing is rapidly becoming a crisis worldwide. Many countries around the world are grappling with the problem. A conventional approach is a government-sponsored/funded attempt to build a modest trial of affordable housing at some at convenient locale, The result may be suitable for study with little or no guarantee that the trial will ever be built out on a meaningful scale.
By comparison, is there something to be said for buying into, or simply observing, other national experiments? For that matter, why not look for solutions in the most populous country in the world? India is rapidly developing country and already swamped by the housing demands of a swelling middle class, let alone a massive requirement for more modest urban and rural affordable housing.
In India, two architects are thinking that tiny house architecture has something to offer. Can other countries benefit by building massive numbers of tiny homes with sufficiently comfortable and affordable living support? Read more in dezeen: Tiny House Is An Affordable And “Aspirational” Housing Prototype In India
For those looking for a broader background beyond a ‘tiny home’ perspective of India’s enormous affordable housing challenges, Gaurav Mittal, a housing developer, offers his assessment in ET Edge Insights: The Future Of Affordable Housing In 2025
