A review of slum housing policies in Mumbai

O’Hare, Greg; Abbott, Dina; Barke, Michael

doi:10.1016/s0264-2751(98)00018-3

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“…That slums are not homogeneous has been repeatedly pointed out [23,53,54]. Slums are a housing solution for the urban poor [55], and as home to more than half of Mumbai's people they must be diverse.…”

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Inequalities in maternity care and newborn outcomes: one-year surveillance of births in vulnerable slum communities in Mumbai

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Das

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Int J Equity Health

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Inequalities in maternity care and newborn outcomes: one-year surveillance of births in vulnerable slum communities in Mumbai

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Int J Equity Health

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“…While some may argue that both forms of housing improvement are insignificant given the magnitude of Mumbai's settler population, they are nevertheless the most significant housing interventions effected in Mumbai in the last two decades 4 . Several researchers have therefore taken notice of the procedures and politics of SRA projects (Chatterji and Mehta 2007; Mahadevia and Narayanan 1999; Mukhija 2003; O’Hare, Abbott and Barke 1998; Weinstein and Ren 2009), and pointed to the asymmetrical power relations that SRA projects draw upon and produce. Such relations create new dynamics between settlers, residents, and housing advocacy groups that are increasingly implicated in policy making and in actual housing construction.…”

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Housing in the Urban Age: Inequality and Aspiration in Mumbai

2011

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In scholarly and popular texts, Mumbai is invoked as an iconic example of the problem of urban informal settlements in the twenty‐first century. While such representations oscillate between tropes of accommodation and marginalization, they often obfuscate the compromised and historical successes of settler politics in the city. In this paper, the authors use an international urbanization conference as a starting point for exploring Mumbai settlers’ housing practices. They examine the processes through which emergent forms of inclusion have been conceptually unhinged from longstanding struggles against inequality. By examining the complex interplay of housing politics, social mobilization, and municipal policy in Mumbai, the paper argues for more careful attention to new regimes of governing that accompany aspirations for “inclusion” in the cities of the urban age.

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“…The definition of what constitutes a slum, like that which constitutes an urban area more generally (Dorélien et al., 2013), differs by country (United Nations, 2014), state (Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, 2008) and even city (O’Hare et al, 1998). Recent research has also indicated that slums may be more heterogeneous than is often assumed (Goli et al, 2011, Chandrasekhar and Montgomery, 2009, Agarwal and Taneja, 2005); many poor people like pavement dwellers do not live in slums and are therefore not “counted” by the standard definitions (Agarwal, 2011).…”

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Slum Definitions in Urban India: Implications for the Measurement of Health Inequalities

Nolan

2015

Population & Development Rev

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Half the population of low- and middle-income countries will live in urban areas by 2030, and poverty and inequality in these contexts is rising. Slum dwelling is one way in which to conceptualize and characterize urban deprivation but there are many definitions of what constitutes a slum. This paper presents four different slum definitions used in India alone, demonstrating that assessments of both the distribution and extent of urban deprivation depends on the way in which it is characterized, as does slum dwelling’s association with common child health indicators. Using data from India’s National Family and Health Survey from 2005–2006, two indictors of slum dwelling embedded in the survey and two constructed from the household questionnaire are compared using descriptive statistics and linear regression models of height- and weight-for-age z-scores. The results highlight a tension between international and local slum definitions, and underscore the importance of improving empirical representations of the dynamism of slum and city residents.

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A review of slum housing policies in Mumbai

Cited by 57 publications

References 9 publications

Inequalities in maternity care and newborn outcomes: one-year surveillance of births in vulnerable slum communities in Mumbai

Inequalities in maternity care and newborn outcomes: one-year surveillance of births in vulnerable slum communities in Mumbai

Housing in the Urban Age: Inequality and Aspiration in Mumbai

Slum Definitions in Urban India: Implications for the Measurement of Health Inequalities

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