The Oriya land, Orissa is situated on the eastern coastline of India. Although the state is backward in many concerns, recent advancements and effective implementation of efficient age old policies have the state right on the track of urbanisation and development. Talking about the housing board which was established in the year 1968 has come of terms in past few decades. At the point of inception, the Orissa housing board had the objective of modernisation of urbane cities and lagging rural areas. Due to economic advancements, the housing board is able to compete with other successful states where such housing board protocol is operational. The housing board here in this state has successfully implemented the concept of giving loans to the home seeker as in the payback schedule was planned on a monthly basis. The weaker economic sections have benefitted a lot from the ventures developed by the housing board. The speciality of Orissa housing board is that it has worked mainly to strengthen the rural sectors which are major set back since illiteracy still prevails to a large extent. According to the official numbers, the Orissa housing board has completed construction work of around 28500 housing societies which are spread over many districts of the state. The financial matters of the residential ventures are taken care of by HUDCO. These residential projects mainly comprise furnished apartments and flats. Besides flats and apartments, duplexes are also being shaped up for accommodation.

Being the capital city of Orissa, Bhubaneswar boasts many projects taken up by the housing board. The capital has already housed 17,000 homes which are the proud products of Orissa housing board. Apart from Bhubaneswar, cities like Cuttack have been enjoying the ventures developed housing board. Many commercial complexes are being built in such cities to boost the revenue and to add to state’s infrastructure. Government is also providing residential quarters for employees and the slum communities have been evacuated and accommodated in fire proof homes built for them especially. The rural housing stream builds homes for home less through the Kalinga Kutir project.