Scaling-up of climate resilient housing in Gorakhpur, India

Based on consultations with key stakeholder groups in Gorakhpur city in eastern India, this paper examines the housing vulnerability challenges faced by the urban poor. The paper analyses the existing constraints within the current financial mechanisms for home mortgages, especially for low income group households; the lack of technical capacities of the local masons on low cost and climate resilient building techniques; and the absence of information at the household level towards creating a demand for climate-resilient housing construction.

The authors recommend the following for enabling large-scale adoption of climate-resilient housing (p. 26-28):

• institutional framework for financial support;
• institutional framework for providing technical competency to masons;
• interventions at community level.