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Old Posted Jul 27, 2010, 7:59 PM
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Originally Posted by brian.odonnell20 View Post
I believe they are doing something about the slum life, such as providing incentives and selling cheap highrise space for the impoverished to move out of the slums, but not on nearly enough of a scale to change the standard of living over the next 5 years. And the latest towers with millions of square feet of living space to service the 2% of the population is kind of, well actually extremely, unrealistic to me, and makes zero fiscally sound sense whatsoever... maybe someone could help me out with the mindset of these developers.
Keep in mind that 2% of the population in India is still a lot of people. 2% of one billion = 20 million.