Housing is an important fundamental rights of the citizen of India. It has to be protected since this is part and parcel of human dignity. Housing forms an indispensable part of ensuring human dignity. “Adequate housing” encompasses more than just the four walls of a room and a roof over one’s head. Housing is essential for normal healthy living. It fulfills deep-seated psychological needs for privacy and personal space; physical needs for security and protection from inclement weather; and social needs for basic gathering points where important relationships are forged and nurtured. In many societies, a house also serves an important function as an economic center where essential commercial activities are performed. A decent house determines social, economic, cultural, climatic, ecological and other factors of development and dignity of a person and for that matter of a family.

In the year 2014 Vijayapuram Social Service Society conducted a Socio-Economic survey of the diocesan people. The consolidation and analysis of the data brought out a major issue of housing. 766 families dwell in huts and shanties, in rented houses and in joint families and 347 families in damaged houses. 52 families do have neither land nor a house. This had been a pointer to why our people still have a sense of low dignity and lack of high aspirations.

A programme “KUDILREHITHA ROOPATHA” (Hutless Diocese) is launched in 2014 to ensure that everyone has access to affordable and acceptable housing, relying purely on the Divine Mercy of god. We could proudly claim that in Six year period we could complete 575 permanent houses, either replaced the old huts or constructed new houses for those did not have any. We supported 195 families to repair and complete their houses.

Before launching Kudil rehitha roopatha Housing programme we could realize the dream of a new house of 700 hundred families with the support of Partage an Organisation from France.

We could achieve this result with the support of Italian Bishop’s Conference, We Share Programme USA, Government of Kerala, Friends and benefactors of the diocese, and the diocesan people.