The study seeks to investigate the maintenance priority preference among public housing residents and their
reasons for such ranking.
ortant reasons
for maintenance.
. The results support Flores-Colen et al. (2010) the
importance of maintenance because of health, safety and functionality reasons.
The results imply that in order to improve the current situation of public housing management, the attention
should be on ensuring the safety and good health of the residents. Specifically, maintenance work should focus on
ensuring electrical, sanitary and pipes are in good condition. Suitable mechanisms for communication and response
method should be planned to facilitate residents in detecting and reporting the above types of building failure.
Improving the relationship between building managers and residents is one of the ways to ensure effective
communica
participation can help to minimize problems concerning the effectiveness of the response method. Further research
on the maintenance prioritisation by various actors in housing maintenance is desirable because it is possible that