Tenants stuck in stalled redevelopment projects of Mumbai suburbs (eastern and western) can breathe a sigh of relief. By December 2025, the Maharashtra government is set to introduce new rules and legislation to curb growing problems where landlords or developers take possession of buildings but neither begin construction nor continue paying rent to displaced tenants.

Uday Samant, Industries Minister, informed the state legislative assembly about enacting new rules and legislation that will bring long-overdue relief to tenants stuck in redevelopment projects. “By next session (read as winter session held in December at Nagpur), the government will bring the law that will put an end to such practice," Samant announced in the state legislative assembly on Thursday.

Yogesh Sagar and Mihir Kotecha (both BJP members of the legislative assembly), through a calling attention motion, highlighted the issue of citizens who are not receiving rent or whose redevelopment work has stalled after their buildings were pulled down.