Even though successive governments at the centre have been launching schemes meant to solve India’s housing problem since the 1990s (for example, the Indira Awas Yojana of 1990 and the Rajiv Awas Yojana of 2009), the prime minister Narendra Modi-led government announced a decentralised programme in 2015, under which the government promised to provide housing to every citizen in India. We know this ambitious scheme as the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana or PMAY.