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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 'I Don’t Have the Option to Rent a House': How Migrant Workers Differ From the Urban Poor -Malay Kotal

'I Don’t Have the Option to Rent a House': How Migrant Workers Differ From the Urban Poor -Malay Kotal

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published Published on Mar 6, 2021   modified Modified on Mar 8, 2021

-TheWire.in

The mass exodus of migrant workers from cities after the nationwide lockdown has amplified the housing crisis for migrant workers in cities.

‘Low-income migrants’ in cities have always subsumed under the blanket, but arguably vague, term ‘urban poor’. This categorisation overlooks the mobility dimension of migrant workers’ lives where they are constantly moving between places in search of work, following capital. The government’s own estimates also indicate that with each passing year, the rates of migration in India are increasing.

This ongoing ‘circulation’ between places is what makes the needs, including housing requirements, of migrants different from those of the other ‘urban poor’ in cities. While central and state governments have launched several housing policies over the years to promote ownership-based housing for the ‘urban poor’, but the housing requirements of migrant workers remain neglected.

The mass exodus of migrant workers from cities after the sudden announcement of a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus has amplified the housing crisis for migrant workers in cities. Migrants were forced to leave due to their inability to pay rents for rooms after losing their jobs.

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TheWire.in, 6 March, 2021, https://thewire.in/urban/migrant-workers-housing-urban-poor


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