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A US-based design consortium headed by an Indian-American architect is in talks with three major Indian developers to design and build "prefabricated" residential projects to reduce cost and time of construction. India needs 12 million low cost housing now. These are basic minimum shelters of 400 sq.ft. and less. There is a demand for this in the form of high-rises in the cities to support the services need in the cities, according to Mr Harshad Patel,Head of Los Angeles Design Consortium . Patel argues that pre-fabricated residential projects, which would significantly reduce the cost of housing, could be effective solution to the massive shortage of housing. Noting that this is needed in Tier 2 and tier 3 cities in the form of horizontal growth for millions of people, Patel said he is in discussions with three major developers in India to design and build these projects as "prefabricated" residential projects to reduce cost and time of construction. Patel said one of their clients in India wants to do low cost prefabricated housing in 100 cities of India> So, he is in talks with Mexican and Chinese prefab companies who can handle this and of course there is a built in profit for the developers which comes from mass production.
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