Fake Marriages for Real Homes

Neighbourhood

• Episode: Fake Marriages for Real Homes
• Website: Neighbourhood
• Feed URL: http://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p06m6c5m.rss
• Duration: 00:27:00
• Published: 2018-10-01 03:00

Would you pretend to be married so you could find somewhere to live? Plenty of people in the Indian metropolis of Mumbai, one of the world's most populous cities, do exactly that. Despite a recent ruling by the country's Supreme Court that an adult couple has a right to live together without marriage, the city's housing system keeps those who are not in conventional heterosexual marriages from renting flats. Shirley Abraham meets some of the people who have to live a lie to live in an apartment.