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This book examines the housing supply and demand processes within a metropolitan setting. It provides a descriptive account of the nature and changes in the supply of housing by the public and private sectors and the impact of various policies on the supply of housing in the city. The analysis of demand for housing provides income and price elasticities of demand for owner and rented housing across various income groups. Residential behaviour is examined within the perspective of needs and preferences, mobility and upward mobility in housing.

The authors of the government's Draft National Housing Policy (DNHP) are not troubled by doubts that the housing market may not cater to the poor. The emphasis on 'affordable shelter' also makes it clear that the draft policy views housing in the context of the present skewed distribution of income and wealth and makes no attempt to use housing as a vehicle to achieve a better distribution of resources. What could be In alternative framework within which the DNHP could be recast?

This paper deals with the structure of housing supply in metropolitan Ahmedabad over the last two decades. The nature of accretion to and the spatial distribution of housing stock, the principal participants in the housing market and the beneficiaries of the existing arrangements are discussed. An attempt is made to understand the nature of state intervention-the mode of intervention, the influencing interests behind state intervention, the actual effects and beneficiaries of state intervention. There is a growing trend towards 'commodification' of housing and resort to illegal and quasi-legal methods in the housing market.

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