National Housing Bank

National Housing Bank
Public
Industry Banking
Founded July 9, 1988
Headquarters New Delhi, India [1]
Products Loans
Website www.nhb.org.in

National Housing Bank (NHB) was set up by the Government of India in 1984 as an autonomous society under the Societies Registration Act 1860. Board has its Headquarter in Institutional Area, Sector 18, Gurgaon (Haryana).[2]

The institution, owned by the Reserve Bank of India, was established to promote private real estate acquisition.[3] The NHB is regulating[4] and re-financing[5] social housing programs and other activities like research and IT-initiatives, too.

VISION Promoting inclusive expansion with stability in housing finance market.

Notes

  1. http://nhb.org.in/AboutUs/about_us.php#org
  2. http://nhb.gov.in/about
  3. Alpana Sivam, Sadasivam Karuppannan: Role of state and market in housing delivery for low-income groups in India in Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 17: 69–88, 2002, S.85.
  4. Regulation
  5. Financial

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