This study looks into the socio-physical liveability through socio-spatiality in low-income settlement archetypes. Paradoxically, recently mushrooming slum rehabilitation housing which has delivered secured tenure to its inhabitants, faces threats of being deserted from lack of socio-physical livability. Recurring informality issues have advocated investigation of the reasons behind the ‘rebound’ phenomenon. This study explores the efficacy of socio-spatiality and its linkages with socio-physical liveability, taking Mumbai slum rehabs as a case study. A comparative analysis of the current built environment indicators and liveability status of major informal archetypes was performed, followed by analyses of the socio-physical problems associated with it. A critical evaluation of the rehabilitation housing of Mumbai highlights the problems caused by the current dense built environment design. Reflecting on global instances, this article demonstrates the significance of socio-spatiality and suggests environmentally sustainable indicator-based built-environment recommendations, which if implemented in the forthcoming slum rehab housing planning, would enhance well-being and liveability among the low-income sector in the future. While analyzing the ‘rebound’ phenomenon, this study delivered heuristics of socio-physical liveability, built environment, and their respective indicators. This method would aid the architects, planners, and policymakers in reshaping the forth-coming built environment while safeguarding the sociophysical liveability of the low-income sector.