Affordable Rental Housing (ARH)

ARH will promote creation of adequate rental housing for EWS/LIG beneficiaries including urban migrants/homeless/destitute/industrial workers/working women/construction workers/, urban poor (street vendors, rickshaw pullers, other service providers etc.), migrants working with market/trade associations, educational/health institutions, hospitality sector, /contractual employees/ amongst others.

This vertical shall ensure affordable and hygienic living spaces for urban dwellers who do not want to own a house but require housing for short term basis or those who do not have the financial capability to construct or buy a house. The State/UT Governments shall ensure that necessary civic/social infrastructure gaps like water, sewer/ septage, sanitation, internal road, community centre, health centre, creche etc. along with desired neighbourhood commercial facilities within the campus as per the requirement are addressed to make these houses liveable.

Rental housing stock shall be used for rental purposes only and managed by ULBs or public/private entities. States/UTs/ULB/Concessionaire/Entities may tie up with Aggregator(s) to rent out houses. Rent may be remitted by such agencies deducting directly from the salary/fee/any kind of remuneration etc. of tenants.

Municipal services such as water supply, electricity, house/property tax, sewerage/ septage charge etc. will be levied at par with residential projects.

The details of available ARH stock including project details, rent details, project wise occupancy status will be displayed and updated on daily basis by ULB/Concessionaire/Entity on Unified Web portal as well as on the website of concerned ULB.

ARH will be implemented through following two models:

A.Model-1: Converting existing Government funded vacant houses into ARH through Public Private Partnership mode or by Public Agencies.

B.Model-2: Construct, Operate and Maintain rental housing by Private/ Public Entities for urban poor, working women, employees of Industries, Industrial Estates, Institutions and other eligible EWS/LIG families.