Affordable housing is witness to degrowth at a time when luxury housing is on a roll. A perception has hence gained ground that the higher interest rates in the range of 8.5-9% is what is the bottleneck for the buyers. However, the fence sitting buyers across the country, more so in the affordable segment, don’t think so. They rather cite the empirical evidence when the housing market was on a roll even when the interest rates were in double digit.