India, Aug. 14 -- His blue-rimmed sunglasses rest on his forehead as Ashish Pratap matches names on a list with personalised printed invitations to the ceremony for allotment of the first batch of redeveloped Bombay Development Department (BDD) Chawl tenements on Thursday.

Pratap works in an event management company and is well-travelled. His seven-year-old daughter is a fourth-generation resident of the BDD Chawl in Worli. His name is not on the list bearing 556 names of residents who are set to receive the keys to their new 500 sq ft homes in the 40-storey high-rise built on prime real estate to house the former residents of the chawl.

"We are just doing this out of love. It may take another three years before I get my new house, but ...