Affordable housing is broadly defined as housing adequate in quality and location and does not cost so much that it prohibits its occupants from meeting other basic living costs or threatens their enjoyment of basic human rights (UN-Habitat, 2011). In the Indian context, affordable housing refers largely to low-cost housing built for economically weaker sections (EWS) or lower-income groups (LIG) and has a specified built-up area in relation to the income parameters that define EWS and LIG (MoHUPA, 2012a) (MoHUPA, 2012c) (MoHUPA, 2013). Several policies and missions have been launched to provide for appropriate affordable housing to address India’s housing shortage, the most recent of which is the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), the Government of India’s flagship program aiming to provide affordable housing to urban and rural poor. Launched in 2015, the PMAY – U (urban) initial target was to construct 20 million units by 2022 against the 18.78 million housing demand (MoHUPA, 2012b).