Task force on Promoting Affordable Housing - Naredco

<strong>Task</strong> Force on Promoting Affordable Housing
· Inventory of state/ city land holdings and increasing land supply for Affordable Housing: The <strong>Task</strong> Force
therefore recommends that, State and cities shall make a full inventory of their land holdings in cities and
constitute a land bank and prepare an asset management plan for better managing the available land and
targeting it supply to create Affordable Housing Dwelling Units.
· Increasing Land availability for Affordable Housing Projects: The <strong>Task</strong> Force is of the opinion that as
even with the support of a set of incentives, the reform in JNNURM program for reservation of 20 % of
developed land (10 % of Gross land) for plotted housing development schemes for the urban poor
would
be too high and beyond the cross subsidy capacity of both the developers/projects as well as the buyers.
The <strong>Task</strong> Force would like to recommend that the reservation requirement under the RAY programme
should be at least 15%-20%,of developed land or at least 35% of the dwelling units in each project with a
plot size of minimum hectare. The 35% of the DUs, reserved at the project level, should be for EWS and LIG
Category with at least 25% of these DUs are of the EWS category. Simultaneously with this reservation the
State governments should also provide compensatory FSI. The <strong>Task</strong> Force feels that this will be better
received by the industry and will also increase the number of dwelling units for the target categories. This
will create more dwelling units in the states and is a higher requirement than the 25% as provided in the
AHP Scheme, currently.
· Increasing FSI and providing TDR facilities: The <strong>Task</strong> Force recommends that increasing FSI/FAR and
providing Transferable Development Rights (TDR) approach is to be used in two situations. Firstly FAR/FSI
should be increased in all Affordable Housing projects where the FSI/FAR is lower than 1.75 to allow for
increased cross subsidy possibility. Secondly in situations where under the Land reservation reform
condition under the RAY Scheme where a portion of the land/FAR is handed over to
government
additional /compensatory FSI at least equal to the FSI actually consumed for EWS/LIG segment in an
automatic route can be offered to the developer. This additional FSI, if unutilized on the same project land,
could be given in the form of TDR, through a zonal planning system, to be used in other parts of the town as
per norms and guidelines fixed by the State government in this regard. In both the situations states and
ULBs may be required to also increase the applicable density levels.
· Revision of the Building Codes: The standards and norms, which often are not tuned to the requirements
of Affordable Housing should be revised.
· Revision in Planning and Development Norms:
A few of the most important initiatives state governments could take are:
· Develop zones for EWS/LIG/MIG in the Master plan
· States may have liberal development norms for Affordable Housing as follows:-
· FAR : 1.75 (Minimum)
· Ground Coverage: 50% (Maximum)
TASK FORCE REPORT 2012
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