State intervention in urban public housing began in 1950, to provide housing
opportunities for wage earners who could not afford to pay rent or build their own
houses. The creation of a Housing Trust -a statutory body - was supposed to help lowincome
families in towns. According to Jagatheesan (1979), in practice, Trust rental
policy was market oriented and determined by principles of return on capital: rents
were fixed at least at "breakeven", at a higher level than the lowest income group could
afford. Numbers built were also not large. For example, in 1957, a total of 1,496 units
were built by the administration (Jagatheesan1, 979,p . 20).
State intervention in urban public housing began in 1950, to provide housing
opportunities for wage earners who could not afford to pay rent or build their own
houses. The creation of a Housing Trust -a statutory body - was supposed to help lowincome
families in towns. According to Jagatheesan (1979), in practice, Trust rental
policy was market oriented and determined by principles of return on capital: rents
were fixed at least at "breakeven", at a higher level than the lowest income group could
afford. Numbers built were also not large. For example, in 1957, a total of 1,496 units
were built by the administration (Jagatheesan1, 979,p . 20).
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