Affordable Housing – A Much Needed Solution for the current scenario.

Abstract

It is very important to have a shelter of our own. The major population of our country is below lower income group. Affordable housing projects for an affordable living are a major concern for the government. The Indian government has started affordable housing scheme as a pilot project collaborating with a public & private partnership in states of Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh & Telangana. In this state of the art literature review; construction of Affordable housing in India is studied. In this case study; a prototype model is proposed. Construction of affordable housing by using the low-cost building materials increases the access to buildings by low-income group people. Affordable housing can be achieved by efficient planning and project management, locally available materials, economical construction technologies and use of alternate construction methods available. The profit gained by usage of such methods can decrease the cost of construction and make the affordable housing accessible to all. In this concept; locally available materials were used like coarse rubble masonry for basement, locally available good soil for filling & fly ash, bottom ash as a substitute of cement & fine aggregate by replacing cement with fly ash up to 35% we achieve more smoothness in walls which will completely avoid the plastering & pointing of walls, moreover the whole construction above the ground level like columns, beams & slabs are casted at a time with special type of form work which will enormously decrease the construction time which will reduce the cost of duplication works & other factors The use of local materials reduces cost of transportation whose contribution to the building material cost is high for long distance. A use of locally available building materials not only reduces the construction cost but also is suitable for the local environmental