ShelterSquare Foundation (SSF) is a non-profit company registered in August 2023 under Section 8 of The Companies Act of India, 2013. Donations to SSF are exempted from income tax under Sections 80G and 12AA of the Income Tax Act, 1961.
Aajeevika Bureau Trust, a charitable trust with decades of experience in working with labor issues, is one of the main promoters of ShelterSquare Foundation.
Our Mission is to develop appropriate, demand-driven and value-added housing solutions in urban areas for migrant workers. Since attaining housing stability is a step-by-step process for a vulnerable worker, we endeavour to enable housing pathways for different stages of their life-cycle.
Our Vision is to become a leading enabler and provider of housing pathways. In doing so, we aspire to raise the benchmark of housing supply and management for worker communities, and influence existing housing markets through demonstration, competition and partnerships.
Since our work necessarily requires practice in largely profit-driven land and property markets, we are aiming to balance our agenda in a way that generates the outcomes of philanthropic intent within a market-based environment, essentially emerging as a financially and managerially self-sustaining model of housing provision—one that is high-quality, purposefully managed and scalable by the beneficiaries themselves.