Bridging the Rural-Urban Housing Divide-The Government Initiatives

‘Home’ being an important need for human being after food and clothing continues to play an important role in making individuals grow and mature as good citizens. Acquiring a home in their life time has become a dream for majority of the people. Also housing is considered as means to gain financial security and long term wealth accumulation. So, proper housing facilities are essential for the welfare of the people. Growing urbanisation has resulted in increased demand for housing day by day. The paper explores on Indian government initiatives in meeting the growing demand requirements of urban and rural population by introducing new policies and schemes to facilitate housing needs.