SPECTRUM OF BUILDING REGULATIONS & RELATED COST

The housing strategy studio aims to formulate a citywide housing strategy for all income groups for the Surat city. For that, analysis has been done in three phases. We studied the prevailing scenario of housing in Surat city in terms of demand & supply, housing shortage, envisioning the future, spatial, demographic, economic growth patterns etc. The studio consists of five enabling and eight provisionary strategies with an institutional framework and capital investment plan for the vision of a housing strategy for 2035. For, sub-strategy I have worked on building regulations to augment the supply of housing for least price dwelling units in the city. Land capital and construction cost are two crucial components leads to an increase in the price of a dwelling unit. Some alterations in the existing framework lead to decrease in the price of the dwelling unit and incentivise the open market to augment the supply of housing for least price dwelling units in the city.