*Research Scholar, School Of Management Studies, Cusat
**Associate Professor, School Of Management Studies, Cusat
Online published on 14 December, 2017.
Housing being one of the three basic needs of life always remains in the top priorities of any person, society and economy. As a human being, an individual needs has own space and privacy, which can be provided by ownership of house. Thus housing deserves significant attention in the context of developing policies and strategies for human development. Kerala one of the smaller state has to accommodate about 2542 persons in a square kilometer in urban area. Migration from rural as well as from other states add fuel to this problem. Unavailability of land, Sky rocketing of existing land price, increasing construction, material and labour cost makes the urban housing scenario more worse. Now the urban kerala is experiencing a rapid shift from housing units to flats. In this present study the author explore the socio-demographic profile of flat owners in Cochin, Kerala
