After 18 long years during which the landscape changed dramatically across Maharashtra, the state government unveiled its housing policy that ticks off all the right boxes, such as affordability and inclusivity, and makes all the right sounds with its central slogan of “My Home, My Right”. The policy has set an ambitious target of constructing 3.5 million houses by 2030 for the low-income and middle-income groups, known in government parlance as LIG and MIG, and an additional one million in the decade after. For this, it envisages a total of Rs 70,000 crore. The policy envisions affordable rental housing, a centralised State Housing Information........

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