It pays to be a slum dweller

Read THIS article and I just realised wthat i`ll never be able to buy a flat in the city i love any time soon. For those who don`t know,Ive been searching for a flat of my own for the last few months, but with real estate prices sky high,bank loans being expensive and my salary being what it is I decided to keep this purchase pending (PS3 here I come),besides that Jains and gujaratis deciding that they only wat their “Own” kind around them have severly reduced the number of flats in the city ,but that is a rant for another blog post.

Meanwhile politicians are falling all over themselves trying to give free flats to slum dwellers who go right ahead and sell the flats for a neat profit and return to set up slums either where they were earlier or some other location,they do this secure in the knowledge that eventually the cut off date for “regularising” slums will get extended perhaps enabling them to get another house free some day.