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History
Recognizing that the vast ma of low income families in the world build their own shelter, which lacks basic hygiene, access and electricity, the strategy was developed. The approach first appeared on a large scale in Madras (now Chennai) in when the World Bank engaged Chri Charles Benninger to advise the Madras Metropolitan Development Authority (MMDA) on their h secinvestments. The approach links the user group's ability to pay with land prices costs of rudimenand upgradable infrastructure. The fundamental idea is to market plots with essential infrastruct atces, to athe resale of [[subsidized hous, directed at low inc groThe first major scheme planned by Benninger, at Arambakkum in Chennai, created about 7,000 shelter within the p capacity of the urban poor. Within five years the MMDA created more than 20,000 units and the approach becmajor strategy of the World Bank to tackle a variety of
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