They currently live in tiny shanties and rooms that measure no more than 100 square feet. Yet hundreds of residents in Dharavi’s sector V are refusing to move into 300 square feet homes that the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) is building for them right next door. The residents are now demanding that they be given apartments that are at least 400 square feet in size!

Slum dwellers in Dharavi demand apartments that are at least 400 sq ft in size

Is this a case of extreme greed? Or is there more to it than meets the eye?
Take the vase of Sheela Kamble and her family, who currently stay in an 80 square feet space that they call home. It is accessible only through a lane that is so narrow that even one person has to walk sideways to get in. Her house has no windows. Yet she says she won’t move out of this room unless the new home has an area of 400 square feet.