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Issue No: 323-324, June-July 2016

The Housing Crisis

Conceptual design of the cost-effective Humanscapes project Two of the major challenges facing the community at present are a fragile economy and a severe lack of low-priced accommodation. Clearly, the two are interlinked. However, while the economy has faced serious stresses in the past – the decision of the Sri Aurobindo Society to cut off funding to the community in the mid 1970s precipitated our first economic crisis – the housing crisis has crept up on us. In the early years, finding accommodation was not difficult. The accommodation tended to be very simple, but this was the ethos of those times, and nobody seemed to feel disadvantaged living in a temporary ‘capsule’ under keet. Of course, there were also more ‘luxurious’ houses in places like Certitude and Auromodele, but this form of permanent housing did not become the norm until the late 1980s, when settlements like Samasti and Surrender began to be built. This coincided with a new push to build the city, and...
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Issue No. 323-324, June-July 2016

  • The Housing Crisis
  • Tackling the Youth Housing Problem
  • Voices of the Floating Youth - The experiences of youth without permanent housing
  • Apprenticeships for Youth
  • How to Protect a Name?
  • Round and Round We Go
  • Roundabouts and Yoga
  • The Path of Pierre Legrand
  • The Healing Paintings of Marie-Claire Barsotti
  • The Abstract Expressionism of Nele Martens
  • Beyond Realism
  • Sri Aurobindo and J.S. Bach - A Personal Experience
  • A Pyrrhic Victory
  • Growing Food, Growing Children
  • Aurovilians are Winners in Indian Championships
  • Luise Hansen; N. Saravanan; Bomi Homawalla (Passing)

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