LS Speaker Asks Union Min To Come Out With Framework To Provide Houses To Homeless

Replying toಌ a question in the Lok Sabha, Puri said tܫhe capacity of government shelter homes is 1.25 lakh but occupancy is 50 per cent.

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Updated on: 15 December 2022 10:17 am

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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Thursday urged Housing and Urban Development minister Hardeep Singh Puri to speak to states to try to come out with a framework so that homeless cou🌠ld get houses.

Replying to a question in the Lok Sabha, Puri said the capaไcity of government shelter homes is 1.25 lakh but occupancy is 50 per cent. Puri also said that as per the 2011 c♚ensus, the total urban houseless population is over 9 lakh. The Centre also asked the states to survey homeless people living on the roadside or in the open who do not have a house.

Birla then urged Puri to speak t꧑o the state governments and draw up a framework to ensure that the homeless get to live in houses.