The Habitat Technology Group envisions the right to have a house of ones own as the fundamental right of every human being. All its activities are directed to achieve this goal. They are a part of the t wenty-year-old “cost effective housing” movement that believes that building a house is not merely a civil engineering work but an activity which involves environmentalism, appropriate technology, conservation, aesthetics, native idiom and social commitment. Habitat believes that a group of socio-economically sensitized architects can make a qualitative change in the housing scenario.
Habitat has been making earnest efforts to make building of house a fundamental right. It believes that to envision such a change one has take up advocacy earnestly. It has been focusing on advocacy in pro-poor policies by forming a peoples group and mobilizing public opinion. It acts as an advocacy group on social issues like eviction of slum dwellers during slum clearance. It is also involved in environment-habitat related issues. Awareness creation on issues related to Habitat and stimulating appropriate action are important areas of its activity. |
