 This paper develops a methodology to assess the resource requirements of inclusive urban development in India, and compares those requirements to current community-wide material and energy flows. The study finds that 1% to 6% of households lack electricity, 14% to 71% use electricity below the benchmark, 4% to 16% lack structurally sound housing, 50% to 75% live in floor area less than the benchmark, 10% to 65% lack clean cooking fuel, and 6% to 60% lack connection to a sewerage system. The study suggests that social policies that seek to provide basic infrastructure, provisioning for all residents, would not dramatically increase current community-wide resource flows, except for providing permanent housing to all people living in structurally unsound housing and those living in overcrowded housing will 5 m cap minus 2. This article was authored by Ajay Singh Nagpur, Mark Rainer, and Anu Ramaswamy. We are article.tv, links in the description below.