Improvised rental housing to make cities COVID safe in India

• COVID-19 necessitates relook at existing living conditions in the developing countries, with Indian cities as case study; • With 3935 persons per hectare, Dharavi is one of the most crowded slums in the world, with 80% households on rent; • Living conditions-socio-economics, neighbourhood circumst...

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Autores principales: Sethi, Mahendra, Mittal, Shilpi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7480975/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32929293
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102922
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description • COVID-19 necessitates relook at existing living conditions in the developing countries, with Indian cities as case study; • With 3935 persons per hectare, Dharavi is one of the most crowded slums in the world, with 80% households on rent; • Living conditions-socio-economics, neighbourhood circumstances and household crowding significantly abet the pandemic; • As COVID recovery, Indian government on July 8, initiated affordable rental housing complexes for urban poor and migrants. • We recommend land monetization, real estate trusts, progressive designs, digital lease management, and tax on second house.
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spelling pubmed-74809752020-09-10 Improvised rental housing to make cities COVID safe in India Sethi, Mahendra Mittal, Shilpi Cities Article • COVID-19 necessitates relook at existing living conditions in the developing countries, with Indian cities as case study; • With 3935 persons per hectare, Dharavi is one of the most crowded slums in the world, with 80% households on rent; • Living conditions-socio-economics, neighbourhood circumstances and household crowding significantly abet the pandemic; • As COVID recovery, Indian government on July 8, initiated affordable rental housing complexes for urban poor and migrants. • We recommend land monetization, real estate trusts, progressive designs, digital lease management, and tax on second house. Elsevier Ltd. 2020-11 2020-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7480975/ /pubmed/32929293 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102922 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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