INTRODUCTION
The First Malaysia Plan (1966-1970) was officially introduce Low-cost housing in “to promote the welfare of the lower income population” (Economic Planning Unit [EPU], 1965, p. 182), and implemented through the State with financial assistance from the Federal Government. Most of the low-cost housing was constructed to resettle squatter settlements in urban areas, and for renting purposes during the First Malaysia Plan, (Aziz, 2007; EPU, 1965). As reported, Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman had state that an extimated 38,000 squatter families are still occupying state government land and private land. The land that is suppose used to economic development in Sabah but the squatter hinder the process. This is showed that squatter settlement still a major problem in Sabah and will bring a problem to construction development in Sabah. Eventhough there are various programmes implemented by the Malaysian government together with private sector to provide houses for the low incomes families but the squatter settlement continue to grow. This issues due to inefficient allocation system. The squatter problem in Sabah can be solved by providing more low cost housing under PPR units through efficient and transparent allocation system.
BACKGROUND PARAGRAPH
One of the main roles of MHLG is to create harmonious and better livelihood for society through the provision of adequate, proper housing and must equipped with social and recreational facilities. The government has decided that home to be built by MHLG under People’s Housing Programme (PPR) must be people-centric. In addition, MHLG has to see to it that the bottom 40% of households families of less than RM2, 500 a month and squatters are able to live in permanent homes...
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...tervention in low cost housing allocation which could jeopardize the chances of genuine buyers. Under this new system, all states would use a standard application form to register for a low-cost house. in absence of a centralised database, there would be a possibility of one person may register at more than one state and therefore may acquire more than one unit of low-cost house at few different states. (Wan Nor Azriyati and Nor Rosly Hanif, 2005) alleged that there are few of purchasers of low-cost houses who rent the houses or sell the houses soon after purchasing it. This conduct may cause insufficiency of supply of the low-cost houses because the same purchasers may register again under the ORS. The existence of speculative buyers is considered as a constraint in controlling the ownership of low-cost unit which supposedly be held only by the designated person.
One of the most interesting indigenous groups in the world is the Batek of Malaysia, this is a group of people that live in the oldest rain forest of peninsular Malaysia. Orang ASli means “Original people” in the native Malay Language, and they truly are the original people of the land. Being a nomadic group of hunters and gatherers, means that they are at the mercy of the land and the elements for survival. Batek beliefs note that, the rainforest was created by “superhuman” beings for the Batek to use and will destroy the world and everything on it if the Batek were ever to leave the rainforest ( K.M. Endcott 1979a; Lye 2004). The Batek believe that the “superhuman” beings created the forest for the Batek to harvest, build houses in, and provide also to decorations for their ceremonial rituals.
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It is often easy to castigate large cities or third world countries as failures in the field of affordable housing, yet the crisis, like an invisible cancer, manifests itself in many forms, plaguing both urban and suburban areas. Reformers have wrestled passionately with the issue for centuries, revealing the severity of the situation in an attempt for change, while politicians have only responded with band aid solutions. Unfortunately, the housing crisis easily fades from our memory, replaced by visions of homeless vets, or starving children. Metropolis magazine explains that “…though billions of dollars are spent each year on housing and development programs worldwide, ? At least 1 billion people lack adequate housing; some 100 million have none at all.? In an attempt to correct this worldwide dilemma, a United Nations conference, Habitat II, was held in Istanbul, Turkey in June of 1996. This conference was open not only to government leaders, but also to community organizers, non governmental organizations, architects and planners. “By the year 2000, half the world’s people will live in cities. By the year 2025, two thirds of the world population will be urban dwellers ? Globally, one million people move from the countryside to the city each week.? Martin Johnson, a community organizer and Princeton professor who attended Habitat II, definitively put into words the focus of the deliberations. Cities, which are currently plagued with several of the severe problems of dis-investment ?crime, violence, lack of jobs and inequality ?and more importantly, a lack of affordable and decent housing, quickly appeared in the forefront of the agenda.
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...ncil only built 29 homes last year. Lots of houses tied up in NAMA that could be used. In my own constituency of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown there are currently - properties that could be used. What is required is a large scale social housing development last seen since 1932. A large quantity of social housing that was previously owned by Dublin corporation and Dublin City council were privatized Public housing private financing joint ventures may need to be pushed if the government cannot be coerced into building large scale social housing projects. Municipal housing associations . Mention gentrification maybe tie the 'no rent supplement' issue into this. Dun Laoghaire Rathdown county council favours this because more affluent tenants means more money for the council's budget, a larger volume of social housing would mean a larger amount of not paying property tax.
The housing market is very unique as unlike other goods and services, houses have permanence, it is a fixed location good causing the rules of supply and demand to be taken to new extremes. In the case of the Toronto housing market we can view in almost real time the role supply and demand play on he ever increasing house prices, additionally the fundamental economic issue of scarcity is made extremely apparent by the limited size of the city of Toronto.
Nevertheless, the previous researches were either focused on the role of affordable housing associating with residential stability or educational improvement for children and employment outcomes for the adults (Manturuk, 2012). Others also emphasized that affordable housing could contribute to community-wide economic development, both for troubled and vibrant communities (Lubell et al., 2007). In addition, even the past researches started to examine the impact difference from various categories ownerships versus; however, the subcate...
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Malaysia is located in the south-eastern Asia, bordering Thailand and northern one-third of the island of Borneo, bordering Indonesia, Brunei, and the South China Sea, south of Vietnam. Due to its locations, it has been colonised since the late 18th centuries by many countries. Since 1965, Malaysia has had one of the best economic records in Asia, with GDP average of 6.5% growth for almost 50 years. The economical development especially boosted during 1981 and 2003 under the governance of Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad. Malaysia succeeded in diversifying its economy from dependence on exports of raw materials to expansion in manufacturing, services, and tourism. Also, the current Prime Minister continues to pursue pro-business policies .
Nevertheless, the standard has been reduced to no more than 40% until recently. Such dramatic change of the figure has made the goal become ambiguous. Practically, the government has tried many methods in dealing with the housing problem. Housing code enforcement is a method that tries to regulate minimal conditions for rental housing. However, this method does not seem to work because it brings additional costs to the tenant. On the other hand, the government tries to help people become homeowner by benefits in kind, such as imposing tax exemption on first home down payment and low interest rate on mortgages. However, the method does not really aim at helping the poor. Moreover, the government tries to increase the supply of housing by building new shelters and buying existing apartments. Yet, none of these work efficiently. The reason that building new shelters does not work is because most of these new housing projects are expensive and time consuming.
... of owning the property, houses are built all over and unregulated. This leaves residents with lack of basic services such clean or accessible water, sewage, sanitation, medical care, crime protection, fire protection, and several other necessities to a functioning urban development. Without public transportation the inhabitants are very limited with jobs opportunities and a means to get by. Accounting for large percentages of both cities populations, if the slums aren’t taken care of, there only going to get worse. Migrations to both of these cities are rapidly and explosively expanding which is constantly pushing the limits of the infrastructure. The involvement of the private sector is also an important aspect. Without it, the government is left to tackle these problems alone and because of politics and under funding can often take very long to do so, if ever.
Having set the aims, objectives and research questions in the first chapter, this chapter zooms in to review literature available on the subject of land tenure regularization and its effect on housing investment from different parts of the world with specific reference to cities. The emphasis of this chapter is to analyse the link between land tenure regularization and housing investment in informal settlements. Also, the focus is on securing land rights in informal settlements, since it is widely believed that regularization of informal settlement rights leads to (increased) access to formal finance which subsequently encourages housing investment (Chome and McCall, 2005). The chapter starts with contextual definition of key terms, and then followed by global documentation on the impact of tenure regularization in informal settlement, focusing on the experiences of some selected countries. Since the aim of the research is to investigate the effect of land tenure regularization on informal housing investment and that both the Zambian Local Authorities and the government have intention to regularize informal settlements, lessons learnt from the case study countries will be noted, after which the chapter will be concluded in section 2.6 by way of a summary.