A sharp debate in the context of life cycle literature is whether older homeowners look at their housing wealth as a means to satisfy post-retirement income needs. Little empirical evidence exists in the Indian context which investigates whether Indian older homeowners save or dissave home...

Housing rents are a major part of a slum household’s expenditure.I exploit a large scale ’big-push’ national urban renewal policyreform in India between 2005 and 2012 to empirically evaluate themulti-dimensional effect of rental reforms and housing provisions onhome ownership, rental...

The paper investigates what economic factors contribute most to the uptake of reverse mortgage by the Indian elderly homeowners. Binary logistic regression is used on a cross-sectional primary dataset of 410 elderly homeowners residing in different metro and non-metro cities of India. The result...