Abstract
Affordable housing for the low-income population, who mostly live in slums, is an endemic challenge for cities in developing countries. As a remedy for the slum-free city, most of the major metropolis are resorting to slum rehabilitation housing. Rehabilitation connotes the improved quality of life that provides contentment, yet what entails residential satisfaction in such low-income situations remains a blind spot in literature. The study aims to examine the factors affecting residential satisfaction of slum rehabilitation housing in Mumbai, India. Here, the moderation effects of sociodemographic characteristics between residential satisfaction and its predictors are elaborated using a causal model. Data on residents’ perception of the residential environment were collected from 981 households in three different slum rehabilitation housing areas spatially spread across Mumbai. The causal model indicated that residential satisfaction was significantly determined by internal conditions of dwelling resulting from design, community environment and access to facilities. Gender, age, mother tongue, presence of children, senior citizens in the family, and education moderate the relationship between residential satisfaction and its predictors. The need for design and planning with the user’s perspective is highlighted to improve the quality of life.
Highlights
Housing is fundamental for the quality of life
Would the residents sustain in the slum rehabilitation housing in the coming years? This study aims to find out the residential satisfaction of the urban poor living in the slum rehabilitation housing in Mumbai, and its determinants
The results show that the respondents have nearly proportional distribution on each floor (Table 2), indicating that the results will not be biased towards any specific floor
Summary
Housing is fundamental for the quality of life. With more than one-third of the world’s urban population living in slums or slum-like settlements sans essential amenities, urbanization has become a developing world phenomenon plagued with poverty, inadequate social and physical infrastructure and unsustainable energy crisis [1]. Providing affordable housing for the low-income population, who mostly live in slums, is an endemic challenge for cities in developing countries. Most governments in the global south are resorting to slum rehabilitation housing as a way of freeing the urban areas from slums [2,3,4,5]. The government in Mumbai has been resorting to a slum rehabilitation housing program (providing mass low-cost affordable housing to selected people from a slum) in its ongoing planned modernization since 1995 [6]. One of the significant aspects of the sustainability of slum rehabilitation housing is the residential satisfaction from the residents’ perspective. Rehabilitation connotes the improved quality of life that provides contentment, yet what entails residential satisfaction in such low-income situations remains a blind spot in literature. There is a need to find ways to improve the housing conditions that take into consideration the satisfaction and well-being of the residents [7]
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