Housing disadvantaged community members in Bombay has been a major concern for over 130 years. A report in The Times of India (ToI) titled "Houses for the poor Parsees of Bombay” dated April 1, 1889 on the foundation stone laying ceremony by Framji Dinshaw Petit for "new houses for the use of the poor classes of the Parsi community” gives an insight into the rationale behind the founding of what was to later become Bombay’s Murzban Colony, believed to be the first community housing project for the Parsis.
According to the news report, Khan Bahadur Muncherji Murzban, memorialized as the founder......