THEORITICAL FOUNDATION OF HOUSING RESEARCH FRAMEWORK.docx

Despite the magnitude of urban housing problem the attention given to this issue is very neglectful. Rapid urbanization stimulates dynamics in urban centers that escalate urban housing dynamics. Several personal and structural constraints become hurdles for urban poor or low income group to access affordable and adequate housing. Thus, to secure their livelihood and to meet housing need different coping mechanisms are being operated. So, prior to see housing empirical scenario it is better to identify systematized knowledge of housing or epistemology of housing.