Soft System Methodology as a Tool to Understand Issues of Governmental Affordable Housing Programme of India: A Case Study Approach

With the help of a case study, the article has explored current practices of implementation of governmental affordable housing programme for urban poor in a slum of India. This work shows that the issues associated with the problems of governmental affordable housing programme has to be addressed to...

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Published in:Journal of the Institution of Engineers (India). Series A, Civil, architectural, environmental and agricultural Engineering Civil, architectural, environmental and agricultural Engineering, 2016-09, Vol.97 (3), p.343-354
Main Authors: Ghosh, Sukanya, Roy, Souvanic, Sanyal, Manas Kumar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Affordable housing
Article of Professional Interests
Civil Engineering
Engineering
Housing
Housing developments
Methodology
Qualitative analysis
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Summary:With the help of a case study, the article has explored current practices of implementation of governmental affordable housing programme for urban poor in a slum of India. This work shows that the issues associated with the problems of governmental affordable housing programme has to be addressed to with a suitable methodology as complexities are not only dealing with quantitative data but qualitative data also. The Hard System Methodologies (HSM), which is conventionally applied to address the issues, deals with real and known problems which can be directly solved. Since most of the issues of affordable housing programme as found in the case study are subjective and complex in nature, Soft System Methodology (SSM) has been tried for better representation from subjective points of views. The article explored drawing of Rich Picture as an SSM approach for better understanding and analysing complex issues and constraints of affordable housing programme so that further exploration of the issues is possible.
ISSN:2250-2149
2250-2157
DOI:10.1007/s40030-016-0177-8