This mass housing project has proven that workers can achieve their dream of housing on the sheer strength of their own sustained movements.
According to the last Census of India in 2011, Solapur has a population of around 950,000, 18 per cent of whom live in slums. However, the number of slum dwellers is significantly lower now than in 2001, when the figure hovered around 25 per cent. Workers’ struggles which led to the building of mass housing were the prime catalysts for this change.
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