Building on the middle-class dream

It was expected that Budget would have something for housing sector, the elections precluded those

In the concluding part of a two-part series, Business Standard looks at how the govt is expected to offer sops to raise demand and supply of affordable housing after the elections

To create traction in the ‘Housing for All’ scheme, the government is expected to announce sops for middle-income groups to avail housing loans. This will make real estate companies that have given the partnership programmes for affordable housing a miss till now, get more interested.

An announcement on these lines is expected soon after the results of the elections to the five state assemblies, due on March 11.