Unintended consequences of people’s housing programme / Baharuddin Mat Asek

• Main Author: Mat Asek, Baharuddin
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: City planning; Human settlements. Communities
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/33273/1/33273.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/33273/

Housing policy in Malaysia is not much linked to other social policies that dealing with poverty reduction. The poverty issues are tackled by the government through sectoral, instead of issue based approach, thus making an integrated approach not feasible. Housing policy is supposed to fix the past...