Housing Issues In Malaysia
Affordable housing or otherwise the demand isn t there while the unsold supply languishes unwanted.
Housing issues in malaysia. Rising cost of living with the income being kept to be constant along the time people tends to live in a condition whereby most of their expenses are going up ever. Clearly malaysia does not need to build more houses in the near to medium term. The paper however shall articulate and examine malaysia s housing development strategies with reference to demographic political economic and social. Analysis of the supply side buying a house is a major decision that homebuyers will make because expenditure on homeownership has an influence on the homeowner s quality of life.
There is a shortage of affordable housing in malaysia with only a quarter of houses launched nationwide from 2016 to march last year priced under rm250 000 a news portal reported today. Steep property prices have also made it more difficult for many people to get a foothold. Yet talk of people wanting to buy houses but not being able to do so abounds. With tighter lending rules high living cost and stagnant wage growth purchasing a home has become an impossible dream for the low and middle incomed.
The government has a responsibility in providing quality housing and adequate for all its citizens. Housing issue in malaysia from. Factors affecting housing prices in malaysia. Issues faced by developers under the housing development control and licensing act 1966 all development projects in malaysia have been halted since 18 march 2020 in view of the movement control order mco which has now been extended to 28 april 2020.
Malaysia as a developing country has a role to provide suitable and affordable housing. Consequently prevailing median house prices are beyond the reach of most malaysians. To ensure that malaysia does not suffer a similar developing nation fate as china and vietnam where rapid urbanisation has resulted in spiralling housing costs leaving many households under. This can be done through policies enacted and housing programs.
Which means demand does exist but the issue is affordability.