This project addresses the links between housing, livelihoods, and transportation in Bangalore. We continue our collection, compilation, visualization and analysis of data, acquisition of additional data from within and outside India, and continued research on planning, relocation, and other urban policies affecting the poor and infrastructure. Data challenges, not to mention different definitions of the term "slum," have slowed this project down, as the first component of shelter being addressed is the slum. Later stages will address other types of shelter.

Given slow movement with governmental organizations, we initiated contact with the Urban Poor Rights and Empowerment (Slum Jagatthu) NGO and have begun a survey of slums with them to collect primary data. We are working with women from the slums to conduct the survey, and have conducted several training sessions as well as beginning our survey. We have stratified the sample by various criteria (such as ethnicity, location, length of existence, security of land tenure, etc.), and are undertaking surveys in thirty six slums throughout Bangalore. In this area we also worked with other NGOs (led by Indo Global Social Service Society) on a survey of the homeless in Bangalore that resulted in a report entitled "Invisible City-Makers: An Action Research on Homelessness in Bangalore City".