Mumbai: Mhada will provide a monthly rent of Rs 20,000 to tenants and residents of 96 dangerous buildings who independently arrange for their own alternative accommodation. The housing board will also arrange to lease 400 tenements for them.Mhada had declared these 96 cessed buildings as “extremely dangerous” during its annual pre-monsoon survey.The board has decided that all expenses incurred under monthly rent as well as the lease of transit units through external agencies, including maintenance, will be recoverable from the private developers or cooperative housing societies which are undertaking redevelopment of the concerned properties. This financial liability will be applicable from the date on which rental assistance is granted or transit units are leased.On Tuesday, Sanjeev Jaiswal, vice president and CEO, instructed Mhada’s Mumbai Building Repairs and Reconstruction Board to issue a public advertisement to lease 400 transit tenements, measuring between 180 and 250 sq ft, through external agencies for a period of three years. These units will be rented out to inhabitants of these 96 buildings.These buildings currently house 2,400 people. “Given the urgent need to relocate them to safe premises, the Board requires immediate access to temporary housing facilities. At present, it has only 786 transit tenements available, making it unfeasible to accommodate all affected persons,” said the Mhada spokesperson. The early onset of monsoon and prospect of higher rainfall has compounded fears.There are 13,091 cessed buildings in the island city. Mhada manages 20,591 transit tenements which are used as temporary accommodation for evacuees due to structural repairs, building collapse, redevelopment constraints due to narrow plots, or demolition linked to road widening.Mumbai: Mhada will provide a monthly rent of Rs 20,000 to tenants and residents of 96 dangerous buildings who independently arrange for their own alternative accommodation. The housing board will also arrange to lease 400 tenements for them.Mhada had declared these 96 cessed buildings as “extremely dangerous” during its annual pre-monsoon survey.The board has decided that all expenses incurred under monthly rent as well as the lease of transit units through external agencies, including maintenance, will be recoverable from the private developers or cooperative housing societies which are undertaking redevelopment of the concerned properties. This financial liability will be applicable from the date on which rental assistance is granted or transit units are leased.On Tuesday, Sanjeev Jaiswal, vice president and CEO, instructed Mhada’s Mumbai Building Repairs and Reconstruction Board to issue a public advertisement to lease 400 transit tenements, measuring between 180 and 250 sq ft, through external agencies for a period of three years. These units will be rented out to inhabitants of these 96 buildings.These buildings currently house 2,400 people. “Given the urgent need to relocate them to safe premises, the Board requires immediate access to temporary housing facilities. At present, it has only 786 transit tenements available, making it unfeasible to accommodate all affected persons,” said the Mhada spokesperson. The early onset of monsoon and prospect of higher rainfall has compounded fears.There are 13,091 cessed buildings in the island city. Mhada manages 20,591 transit tenements which are used as temporary accommodation for evacuees due to structural repairs, building collapse, redevelopment constraints due to narrow plots, or demolition linked to road widening.