Letters: Housing problems

This refers to Geetanjali Krishna’s column “Ramesh’s house-hunting” (September 17). The author has nicely captured a real-life problem faced by millions of migrant workers in India. Ramesh represents a class that is being sustained and perpetuated by the so-called influential elite to ensure that unskilled workers are available for starvation wages. A solution can be found by making those who occupy or hold, say, more than a reasonable limit of living space (this could be 400 sq ft per individual) agree to either accommodate more members in their own dwelling unit or to contribute to a national house-building fund dedicated to providing cheaper accommodation to the needy.

M G Warrier, Mumbai