POST OCCUPANCY MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT OF LOW INCOME HOUSING AREAS OF DELHI

Abstract

Housing is not merely blcieks'of brick and mortar woven in labyrinthine fabric of services, but a live network of socially interdependent men and women; whose basic shelter needs are to be met in a manner that will synthesize with their work their daily lives. • . • I. Housing has advanced from the concept of shelter through the Objectives of 0Ovigion of comfort and contentment, ' prevention of diseages'and maintenance" of . physical health -, 40— aesthetic considerations to that of hurtu'ring''soclicr health'iof the community. 1,7 2. Therefore if we contend by definition that housing should ensure I, 1(1 residential satisfaction and in design should help achieve it, then like other designed products, it should be accompanied by some sort of a guarantee to back it by a scheme of after sales service, that helps achieve its original objective. In other4ordS, ,the physical task and social responsibility of development authorities and local, bodies does not culminate with 'theMere provision of housing;' but' goes 'on to maintain it in a habitable and socially'acceptable condition in the post occupancy period.