Photo: Abhijit Bhatlekar/MintMumbai: A panel of experts at the 11th Mint Annual Banking Conclave discussed the opportunities and challenges in affordable housing. The panellists were Sandeep Menon, managing director (MD) of Vastu Housing Finance Corp., A. Ramesh Kumar, founder and chairman of Swarna Pragati Housing Microfinance Pvt. How easy or difficult is it to get into affordable housing in rural India? A good housing finance organization needs to also have an equally good say on the supply side. Srinivas: Affordable housing segment is one, which is growing and the best is yet to come and let me also tell you that almost all HFCs across the whole spectrum, we are doing lot of affordable housing financing.

Source: Mint February 26, 2018 19:07 UTC