'Rents have shot up SUDDENLY DUE TO DEMAND'
India, Aug. 2 -- The biggest challenge for 54-year-old Gurvijay Yadav is to find another rental accommodation. A resident of A-Wing and a power loom supervisor, Yadav spent Saturday carrying out furniture and household items from his flat after authorities briefly allowed residents to retrieve their belongings. But as cupboards, beds and utensils were loaded onto tempos, he wondered where any of it would go.
"All this furniture is of no use unless we have a house. For now, we plan to keep it in the tempo, but we can't afford it beyond two days," he said.
Yadav said his family owns two small rooms in a nearby chawl. Since Thursday night, relatives have repeatedly urged him to ask the existing tenants to vacate so that his family could move in immediately. But he refused. "Should I make someone else homeless during monsoon because I have become homeless?" he asked. "Is that fair?" Instead, he chose to continue staying at the nearby temple that has been sheltering dozens of displaced residents.
Another shock that Yadav is facing is the sudden spike in rental rates in the vicinity, since the building collapsed. "I have seen nearly two dozen houses since yesterday. Everywhere I go, people are quoting whatever price comes to their mind," he said.
The sharp increase, he believes, is driven by the sudden demand from hundreds of displaced families looking for accommodation at the same time....
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