The Scheme of Affordable Housing in Partnership aims at operationalizing the strategy envisaged in the National Urban  Housing & Habitat Policy (NUHHP) 2007, of promoting various types of public-private partnerships – of the government sector with the private sector, the cooperative sector, the financial services sector, the state parastatals, urban local bodies, etc. – for realizing the goal of affordable housing for all. It intends to provide a major stimulus to economic activities through affordable housing for the creation of employment, especially for the construction workers and other urban poor who are likely to be amongst the most vulnerable groups in the recession. It also targets the creation of demand for a large variety of industrial goods through the multiplier effect of housing on other economic activities.