 Measuring Operational Affordability of Public Low-Cost Housing in Kuala Lumpur. Case study of People?s Housing Programme Public Low-Cost Housing in Kuala LumpurSuzaini Mohamed Zaid ()
International Journal of Social Sciences, 2015, vol. 4, issue 4, 54-74 Abstract: Affordability in housing is often defined by the ratio of purchase price or rent, to total household income. At present, public low-cost housing units in Malaysia are sold or rented at below market price value being subsidized by the government. This housing affordability definition overlooks other important issues such as long-term operational costs, where a typical low-income household spends a substantial share of monthly income on energy and utility services such as electricity and water. Consequently, the apportionment or percentage of average household income spent on operational household expenditure such as rent, electricity and other utilities are investigated in this paper, by using a survey questionnaire and interview techniques. This paper presents a brief overview to how low-cost housing can contribute to sustainable development in terms of long-term operational affordability for social and economical sustainability. Keywords: Public housing; Low-cost housing; Sustainable urban housing; Triple-bottom-line; Housing Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sek:jijoss:v:4:y:2015:i:4:p:54-74 Access Statistics for this article International Journal of Social Sciences is currently edited by Klara Cermakova, Tana Kubatova More articles in International Journal of Social Sciences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences |
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