Motive of the member
Habitat believes in Social Architecture. One of the reasons for founding Habitat was to be able to provide housing solutions to the millions of people for whom owing their own home is a distant dream. When the Government of Kerala launched the “Janakeeya Parpida Padhathi" or the Total housing scheme as a part of the People's Planning Campaign, it chose Habitat to carryout the scheme in 2 districts, due to its vast experience in handling such low-cost housing schemes. This fishermen's slum at Veli is a part of that housing scheme and brings out Habitat's approach to the housing needs of the poor.
Motive of the team
The People's Planning Campaign is a one of its kind government initiative to bring about a large-scale social reform, with housing also being one of the prime focuses. Through this scheme the government of Kerala wishes to construct a large number of houses solely through people's participation. Since, Habitat has been appointed as one of the technical partners and implementers of the scheme, it would be doubly interesting to discuss the total housing scheme as the background and bring out Habitats role in the whole process.
Other motives
To be able to study the peoples planning campaign more holistically with reference to Habitat's initiatives.
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