6.0 ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN IMPLEMENTING LOW MEDIUM COST HOUSING
IN MALAYSIA
In order to identify the issues and challenges in implementing low medium cost
housing in Kuala Lumpur, interviews with the officers from City Hall Kuala Lumpur
and housing developers in implementing low medium cost housing have been
conducted. The findings of the study are as follows:-
1. There is clear miss-match between the supply and demand of low medium
cost housing in Malaysia.
2. Private developers are not keen in building low medium cost housing due to
low level profitability and the fact no compulsion has been imposed unlike the
low cost housing. Moreover there is no special incentives given to the private
developers to encourage them to build low medium cost housing.
3. The Draft Kuala Lumpur Structure Plan 2020 does not included low medium
cost housing category in the projection of houses unit to be built by year
2020. Although the emphasis of Structure Plan is to provide more houses in
medium cost range (including low medium cost), specific policies and
projection for low medium cost housing category were not clearly stated.