Affordable housing for low-income group, Purbachal, Dhaka

Abstract

Each and every hour around 70 people are coming outside from Dhaka in search of job opportunity. They come to city in hope of having a better lifestyle, but mostly ends up living a miserable life in slums or squatter settlements, which mostly occurs due to less work opportunity and shortage of affordable housing. Recently government has introduced a proposal of multistoried apartment buildings for the slum dwellers, but is it enough for them to have a better lifestyle? Already there are many examples built in the city like the Bhashantek Rehabilitation Project (BRP) which was a failure example of this attempt. So, if we replicate the same thing without acknowledging the real issue behind their suffering, surely the idea of affordable housing will fail again. So, what are the solutions and mechanisms that could be followed to build a sustainable and affordable housing? This project is about the lower socio income group of people in our society, who plays a great role in all of our lives, The aim of the project is to create a homestead and provide a better lifestyle to this group of people by creating a social housing in the new modern town Purbachal. The goal is to focus on the major issues behind their suffering and provide them a better living environment along with providing economic opportunities and fundamental facilities like education, accommodation, food and recreational amenities.