Affordable Housing in Partnership (AHP)

Affordable Housing in Partnership (AHP) vertical shall provide Central Assistance to EWS beneficiaries for owning a pucca house. Under this vertical affordable houses of 30-45 sqm carpet area will be constructed by Public/Private Agencies and made available for allotment to the eligible beneficiaries of EWS category.

States/UTs/IAs shall charge minimum booking amount from the beneficiaries to eliminate the non-serious beneficiaries and avoid the unoccupancy issues at a later stage and loss to the exchequer. The booking amount will be adjusted against the beneficiary share. Central Assistance will be provided to public sector implementing agencies and to beneficiaries through Redeemable Housing Vouchers (RHV) in case of private sector projects.

Projects of the AHP vertical should promote use of resource efficient, climate responsive, disaster resilient, eco-friendly and sustainable building materials, technologies and processes. The project should also adopt green building norms in line with prevailing standards and specifications including sustainable construction practices to provide thermal comfort, reduce energy use and environmental impact.

All projects under AHP shall be completed within 24-36 months from the date of receipt of all Statutory approvals. The Geo-tagging of AHP projects will be done in five construction stages such as layout, foundation/plinth, superstructure, finishing and completion stage with infrastructure.

While making the allotment in AHP projects, the families with person with disability and senior citizens may be allotted house preferably on the ground floor or lower floors.

All AHP projects should be mandatorily registered under the provisions of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 [RERA]. Under AHP vertical, change of project proponent/construction agency is not permissible and RERA registration should be done in the name of the agency against which the project has been sanctioned by competent authority.

A. Model-1: Construction of houses by Public Sector agencies and parastatals

B. Model-2: Private sector AHP projects- Ownership of house by purchase from Real Estate Market through Housing Voucher