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| Document Type: | General |
| Publish Date: | 2013 |
| Primary Author: | urban Odisha |
| Edited By: | Suneela Farooqi |
| Published By: | www.udrcalliances.org |
The Odisha Alliance (in India), which is part of the broader Indian Alliance, active in 72 cities in nine Indian states and whose work is internationally recognized. Mahila Milan and Sparc have been working in Odisha since 1999 to facilitate community-driven processes. In India’s cities, the urban poor generally lives in informal settlements, where houses are mostly made of either poles and plastic or mud walls and a thatched/plastic sheet roof, which demands repair every year at prohibitive costs. Permanent/stronger houses are not built due to a lack of secure land tenure and of available capital for housing investment.