Our home is a slum: an exploration of a community and local government collaboration in a tenants' struggle to establish legal residency in Janata Squatters Colony, Mumbai, India 

 - Geneva  United Nations research institute for social development  1999 
 - xiii,48p.  30cm 
 - Discussion paper .
 -  107 .
<br/><br/> Includes bibliography 
<br/><br/>INTRODUCTION <br/>1. ORIGINS OF THE HOUSING DISPUTE <br/>1.1 MUMBAI: A DUAL ECONOMY <br/>1.2 JANATA SQUATTERS COLONY <br/>1.3 VLT HOLDERS: CONDITIONS VIOLATED <br/>1.4 THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHAWLS: AN EXPLOITATIVE ARRANGEMENT <br/>1.5 MAHARASHTRA VACANT LANDS ACT: HELP OR HINDRANCE?<br/>1.6 SLUM DECLARATION ADDS FURTHER COMPLICATIONS <br/>1.7 MVLA ABOLISHED: RENT AREAS <br/>1.8 HARASSMENT OF TENANTS <br/>1.9 SUMMARY: THE TWO PROCESSES OF LAW<br/>2. THE COLLABORATION <br/>2.1 THE BMC AS A QUASI-JUDICIAL AUTHORITY <br/>2.2 YUVA IN JOGESHWARI AND THE ORIGINS OF JRS <br/>2.3 FOUR COMMON GOALS OF THE COLLABORATION <br/>2.4 DIFFERENT ROLES AND CAPACITIES <br/>2.5 ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE COLLABORATION: THE DMC JUDGEMENT <br/>2.6 REFLECTIONS ON THE COLLABORATION UNTIL 1992 <br/>3. THE PROCESS OF DISINTEGRATION <br/>3.1 STRUCTURAL IMPEDIMENTS: THE MENACE OF BUREAUCRACY <br/>3.2 UNFORESEEN EVENTS <br/>3.3 PERSONALIZATION  
<br/><br/><label>ISSN: </label>1012-6511 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> Housing policy - Mumbai <br/> Mumbai - social conditions<br/>Cities - poverty - Mumbai 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>307.3364  / YOU