Enabled by colonial Land Acquisition Act, one of the largest land transfers in the city’s history is underway. large tracts of ‘barren’ land are being acquired by the force of the state, to be handed on favourable terms to the country’s biggest developers https://www.dawn.com/news/1600730 

This shows what 99% of urban or land economists and 100% of general economists don’t understand. The profit is reflected in the land and not in the development or construction. Unless that’s understood, you can’t have mass affordable housing.

Director Master Planning CDA k khyalaat mulahiza hon

CDA would clearly like to keep poverty outside Islamabad’s boundaries

@ayesharshahid this is superb, brilliant, insightful, well researched and heartfelt stuff. Thank you for writing this.