“…The geographical and social location of the housing units such as slum, non-slum, core and periphery of the urban area and inter-relationships among neighbours also influences the quality of housing and household well-being. As indicated by various studies conducted on housing market discrimination (Mishra, 2020; Thorat et al, 2015; Vithayathil et al, 2016), marginalised social group households have limited access to basic amenities and receive unfriendly behaviour from the majority social groups living in their locality. These vulnerable social groups not only experience discrimination in accessing housing—both rental and owned, but are also forced to vacate their houses and suffer other unpleasant consequences and compromises in the form of higher prices for the similar units in comparison to dominant social groups, besides long commute distance for work, access to poor basic amenities and other social and psychological consequences.…”