‘Unsafe’ bodies, hostile city: Governing the houseless in India during Covid-19 induced lockdown

Dr. Paroj Banerjee, Dr. Ratoola Kundu and Maggie Paul of Humaree Pehechaan discuss how the pandemic governance created conditions of unsafety for the urban houseless. The webinar was organized by the Centre for Policy Research, Delhi, India.

Watch our founder Dr. Paroj Banerjee talk about the pandemic as more an issue of housing injustice for the urban houseless that continued from pre-pandemic times. The talk is a part of (Post)Pandemic Planning in the South(s) series - No 2 organized by The Bartlett Developement Planning Unit

Watch the first public webinar organized by the Humaree Pehechaan collective discussing how we define houseless. The research teams from Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata also share accounts of how houseless communities coped with the impacts of Covid-19 restrictions.