Despite being declared dangerous to inhabit by the MHADA earlier this year, residents of building number 135 and 137 in Nehru Nagar police colony are still living here, since they have nowhere to go. Senior police officers, who had visited the building, asked the 49 families to apply for alternative residence, but the ones who have applied have received no response yet.

The Mumbai Housing and Development Authority (MHADA), between 1967 and 1970, constructed 19 buildings in Nehru Nagar with 580 flats. Most of these buildings were allotted to the constabulary section of Mumbai Police with 1BHK flats in them. Building no 135 and 137 housing 80 families were declared as dilapidated in 2017 by the MHADA and the Public Works Department (PWD) was responsible for its maintenance. A third-party audit of the building was done by a firm which "sent its report directly to Additional Police Commissioner (East Region) in January 2019 saying that the building needed repairs and it was fit for residents to live in," a senior police officer said.