surat at least 100 realtors have taken up affordable housing projects because of surging demand in this segment in the city among them is a realtor who till now had been developing only luxurious residential apartments in the city his project has 3000 flats each having a carpet area of 60 square metre they had switched over to affordable housing projects because of government subsidy concessional gst 12 minus 4 100 bank loan and profitlinked income tax exemption for promoters a senior officer of the town planning department of surat municipal corporation said 100 affordable housing projects have been approved by the civic body in the past six months surat will have two lakh private flats built under affordable housing projects in the next 30 months he added confederation of real estate developers association of indias credai former surat president velji sheta said we have completed 10 projects in the last seven years we are constructing 275 flats of 2bhk at jahangirabad these flats have carpet area of 60 square metres and super built up area of 1125 square feet we sold 23 flats last monthlavji badshah a builder said we are constructing 3000 flats of two bhk under affordable housing scheme there is only demand for houses in this segment anarock property consultants chairman anuj puri said affordable housing sector has become buoyant because of incentives and subsidy being provided by government of india and reserve bank of india the government wants to provide housing for all by 2022 and is doing everything to attract more developers to build houses for people at affordable cost