Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements & Housing

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Document Type General
Publish Date 26/02/2014
Author Ahmad Ezanee Hashim, Siti Aida Samikon, Faridah Ismail, Zulhabri Ismail
Published By Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
Edited By Suneela Farooqi
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Managing Facilities on Malaysian Low-cost Public Residential for Sustainable Adaptation

Public housing is affordable living houses for the low-income groups and to overcome the issues of illegal squatters in towns and cities area. Within a limited space of land, a multi-storey low-cost building will enable to provide many housing units to be built. This research aims to highlight and analyze issues faced by the management of low-cost public housing toward the sustainable adaptation of existing facilities. The analysis is based on a comparative study of managing multi-story housing and feedback given by the stakeholders. Finding identified will provide important data to enhance physical facilities requirements and extensive consideration relevant to sustainable adaptation, in which the entire problems concurrently in multi-story public housing can be well treated.

Public housing built by Malaysian Government is basically to provide affordable living houses for low-income group and overcome the issues of illegal squatters in towns and cities area. Within limited space of land, a multi-storey low-cost housing will enable to provide many dwelling units to be built. Public housing is one of the important affordable homes for all citizens particularly on low-income group. Continuous assessment on the facilities performance of low-cost public housing is essential to monitor up to date condition and guide future public housing management. A studied on residential satisfaction in newly designed public low-cost housing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Mohit M.A (2010), recommended that public agencies for low-cost housing should give attention on the management of support and public facilities to enhance residential satisfaction of the inhabitants.

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