[2] Slum dwellings had proliferated in the city, and the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai had been granted permission to demolish pavement structures by a Supreme Court ruling.
[3] We, the Invisible revealed that pavement dwellers were not transient populations, but people who had lived for over two decades in the city.
[5][6] As a result of the report, there were no violent evictions of pavement dwellers in Mumbai despite the Supreme Court ruling.
[3] In 1986, 300 households were moved from their shacks on the East Moses Road to the Dindoshi Nagar site in Goregaon.
Having had no choice in being moved, the families were saddened by the experience and this spurred SPARC to find out what people really wanted.