Place for Placeless People

India’s rich , richer than the French . Its poor , much poorer . The opposite of poverty is not wealth , the opposite of poverty is justice . There are still so many people in the world who still do not have proper to place to live in . who roam everyday to find a place to live . this research deals with those people who do not have homes or a permanent place to reside in . How they manage there living and how they make those temporary structure and the way they reside in it until they get displaced from there . Then the study on how we can make an efficient structure for those home less that it is free of cost , efficient , prtable , and workable. So that we can smartly give a place to the placeless people .

India is a country having the richest culture , tradition , values , ethics and food . It is known for its unity in diversity.

It is the second largest country if we talk about the population of 1.252 billion people (2013) and the seventh largest in the world if we talk about the area . But having second largest population in the world is not an easy job . Because everyone should be getting proper healthcare , education , water supply , electricity and the most important proper place to live in . This is where India lacks . According to the 2011 census , there were 1.77 million homeless people in India , or 0.15% of the total population of the country . There is a shortage of 18.78 million houses in the country .

The problems that lead to homelessness include ; Poverty ; Lack of affordable housing Disability (either mentally , physically or both) ; Unemployment . Due to homelessness many other problem occur such as child labor , child abuse , sexual abuse , emotional abuse , thievery , illness , drug addiction , crime , exploitation , irreplaceable slums because people occupy those areas the way they want to then that area becomes theirs . Prior to the release of slumdog millionaire in 2008 , Mumbai was a

slum tourist destination for slumming where homeless people and slum dwellers alike could be openly viewed by tourists . I believe that India should be known for its beauty , values , and working but not something that should be solved as soon as possible with seriousness and sincerity rather than making it just another issue and discussing it for one or two months on the media and then forgetting , and then using it as a tourist destination. The first decade of the 21st century would see 75,000 people kicked out of Sanjay Gandhi National Park with the government using a massive military force of helicopters and heavily armed police officers. About 78 million people in India live in slums and tenements. 17% of the world's slum dwellers reside in India – making 170 million people "almost homeless” Government has taken lot of step to cater this problem and have made some shelters like rain basera ; but still we have seen that lot of people still did not use those shelters even in winters ; the reason is that they are afraid of sleeping in a big structure that is full of people they don’t even know , bodies packed against bodies and chances that someone may steal some of their belongings . One f the reasons is that the sanitary conditions are very bad inside those shelters that contract fleas that make sleep impossible anyway . Some like rag-pickers, street vendors , and rickshaw pullers need spaces where they can safely store their bags for ragpicking, their small stocks of materials like cigarettes or artefacts that they sell, or their rickshaws, but shelters typically do not allow these . And finally they spoke about disrespectful behaviour by shelter managing staff, who are often untrained , very poorly paid , and poorly motivated . In the middle classes , we frequently underestimate how important it is for destitute people to be dealt with in dignified ways. So the first things that we need to focus , while designing the shelters for these people is that we need to design a home not shelter , because the people who are going to use it are also humans and they too want affection , no matter how long they are going to use it .Then comes the structures should be long lasting , durable , and off course cheap .That will include optimum spaces for living and smart selection of materials .

This figure shows the optimum height that is needed for a person. The conceptual sketch is just a starting point of how we can save money , space and still do something creative .For the materials we can use fly ash brick or some other kind of flexible material if we want to make it tent kind of structure .

Fiq 3: conceptual sketch for Optimum height.

So the conclusion is that Resect and Empathy is all they need to stay secure and happy . The government is doing its job but it must respect the homeless residents of the city as people who are struggling to survive with dignity , actually listen to them, and construct a response that genuinely addresses the formidable challenges of their lives. At present, shelters are no more than spaces where living bodies of the very poor have to be stuffed every night the more of them fit in as little space as possible the better it is and summarily ejected every morning. They closely resemble Victorian poorhouses: unsanitary, undignified and disrespectful. This is surely not what India’s poorest deserve in 21st century republican India.

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