Housing is a basic social need where families can have a comfortable living and work in a sustainable environment. Public housing is  the important affordable homes for all citizens specially on low income group. In Malaysian development programs, provision of adequate, affordable accommodation, quality, safe housing and related social services . The government  take aimed  to improve the quality of life and contributing towards the formation of a caring society.

Malaysian government are committed in providing adequate, affordable and quality housing for all Malaysian, particularly the low income group Under the Seventh Malaysia Plan . The Government continued to provide low-cost houses in the Ninth Plan, the government’s efforts by building more than 29,000 low- and low-medium cost houses in urban and rural areas. Since there are so many public housing projects provided by the government and it also identify   to assess factors that influences the performance of low cost public housing in Malaysia towards a sustainable environment and to identify the low qualities of building materials and workmanship as the main problems in low-cost housing.