The Anant Centre for Sustainability is dedicated to advancing research and development initiatives anticipating future sustainability trends and combating climate change. By providing actionable insights and innovative solutions, the centre serves as
hts and innovative solutions, the centre serves as a vital resource for policymakers, businesses, and communities worldwide. Our research efforts span various aspects of climate change mitigation and adaptation, emphasizing the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability endeavours aimed at addressing climate change challenges.
Affordable Housing at Anant has a solutionary approach – we analyze the challenges, look at best practices, possible solutions and their impact. We partner with institutions, organizations and governments from across the world to better address the challenges of housing. Our work is multi-disciplinary and geography agnostic.
The multi-disciplinary team brings together a diverse range of backgrounds across the industry, public policy, research, investments and civil society. The Affordable Housing team is at the forefront for research in this space and has published extensively.
During COVID-19, the Affordable Housing team presented a comprehensive plan to convert underutilized buildings into COVID care centres. The proposal was implemented by us setting up more than 27 hospitals across 6 states. We also pioneered the use of recyclable corrugated furniture for healthcare and delivered a range of emergency and testing vehicles based on rickshaw platforms. These are some of the cheapest such vehicles in the world.
India faces a crippling shortage of urban housing while nearly 14% of houses in cities lie vacant. This is endemic to all urban areas in India. The Centre has planned to better understand this phenomenon through a series of city reports starting with.
Ahmedabad has one of the largest stock of vacant housing in the country. The report was based on an exhaustive primary survey covering 50 government and private housing colonies spread across the city. The survey looked to identify what could be city or location-specific.
The report culminated in a number of specific short and long terms interventions that can be done by the government to incentivize the occupation of these homes.
Safe and adequate housing remains one of the biggest challenges in India and in an irony of fate, the people building dream homes for us remain the most deprived. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw the largest human reverse migration in Indian history.
In collaboration with the the Centre is looking to understand the role played by the lack of adequate housing in influencing the decision of migrants to return home. The report, based on past and current living conditions, will propose needed policy changes and whether the Affordable Rental Housing Complexes policy has a role to play. The report will also look at alternate materials and technologies to propose possible design solutions.
The Anant Centre for Sustainability works in partnership with select international and Indian organisations to further its mission of advanced research and project implementation in climate action, affordable housing, indigenous models of circular economy, and building sustainable education campuses. In implementing projects, the Centre has received grants and sponsorships from both government organisations and private sector companies. We have also delivered to clients in locations across India, products and solutions related to affordable housing, corporate sustainability, and sustainable campuses.
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