International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume IV, Issue I, January 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186

Trend of National Housing Policy: Bangladesh Perspective (Can meet the challenge of housing for all?)

Most. Suraiya Akter¹, Asrafi Bintay Akram^2
1Student, Department of Sociology, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur, Bangladesh
²Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur, Bangladesh

Abstract: – A policy is a set of ideas or plans that are used to guide decisions and accomplish rational outcomes. Bangladesh’s government takes many policies for the development of its citizens. The national housing policy is one kind of policy that is undertaken by the Bangladesh government to provide affordable and sustainable housing to all of its citizens. Because the government believes that housing is a basic right of people. Housing is seemed to be a shelter, security, social status and source of income to the people. Besides, for ensuring standard livelihood through planned economic development to manage housing for all is the constitutional responsibility of the Bangladesh Government. But the number of people recorded homeless in the country was around 280,000 people are homeless (Molla, 2016). Then isn’t our national housing policy proficient to overcome the existing housing challenges in rural and urban areas of Bangladesh? The aim of this study to describe the trend of development of this policy during different times and to identify that could this policy meet the challenge of housing for all in our contemporary changing society. This identification will guide us to take some initiatives to solve our housing problem in the future. It is desk-based descriptive research and has analyzed reviewing available secondary texts regarding the issue of housing policy.

I. INTRODUCTION

A house is a place where a man lives. Housing is one of the basic needs of a human being. Generally, housing refers to the shelter, building or something else that covers and protects human beings. It is a social and material fabric of any settlement which maintains the qualities of collective living and wellbeing of people. Every nation has some policies on the housing of its own citizens. Because housing police refers to the action of government including legislation and program delivery which have a direct or indirect impact on housing supply and availability, housing standard and urban planning ( (Hub, 2019). Housing policy has a direct impact on homelessness because the availability of safe and affordable housing is only ensured for the homeless people through the policy. The government itself has realized the importance of appropriate policy for ensuring housing for all as well and therefore it has mentioned the following necessities of housing in the last reviewed policy in 2016: