THE HOUSING STORY

50%

The share of affordable housing in new launches in the past one year

27%

Growth in affordable housing sales between January and September 2017 (y-o-y); overall residential housing contracted 33 per cent

32%

Growth in loans for EWS category houses for HDFC in 2017/18; for the LIG category, it was 42 per cent

5%

Margins in the affordable housing space, considered low by most private players

2,37,000

Units built by private sector players in affordable housing that are lying unsold across seven cities