{"id":4629,"date":"2004-10-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/10\/08\/2004-10-08-no-takers-for-homes-in-dalit-apartments\/"},"modified":"2004-10-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-08T12:00:00","slug":"2004-10-08-no-takers-for-homes-in-dalit-apartments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/10\/08\/2004-10-08-no-takers-for-homes-in-dalit-apartments\/","title":{"rendered":"No Takers For Homes In Dalit Apartments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.123bharath.com\/news\/index.php?action=fullnews&#038;id=25187\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 3, 2004: Three bedrooms, ample living space, running water and a car park &#8211; these are dream flats in a middle-class heaven in Delhi, but they have few takers, even at a discount. Gaurav Apartments, in Patparganj in east Delhi, boasts of houses that a potential buyer would give his right arm for &#8211; were it not for the label of &#8220;Dalit.&#8221; Built by a group of residents belonging to the Scheduled Castes (as Dalits are known officially) and Scheduled Tribes, the apartment complex is an odd one out in a neighborhood dotted by housing societies of professionals like engineers, journalists, technocrats, doctors and professors. &#8220;The lack of demand has plummeted property rates here, yet few people want to buy flats here,&#8221; said Ramu (name changed), an employee of the Gaurav Apartment Housing Society.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceNEW DELHI, INDIA, October 3, 2004: Three bedrooms, ample living space, running water and a car park &#8211; these are,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}