27 May 2014 Housing Shortages in Bombay in the 1860s A subject currently much in the news at the moment is the shortage of affordable houses to buy in Britain, and the high rents being demanded, particularly in the south-east. It is interesting to note that this is an old problem, which crops up time and again in history books and archives. One file of correspondence in the India Office Records gives the example of the difficulty experienced by Government servants as a result of the high rents being demanded for accommodation at Bombay in the mid-1860s. http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2014/05/housing-shortages-in-bombay-in-the-1860s.html ---- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar