Affordable Housing Performance Indicators for Landed Houses in the Central Region of Malaysia

Ahlam M Jamal Eshruq Labin,Adi Irfan Che-Ani,Syahrul Nizam Kamaruzzaman

doi:10.5539/mas.v8n6p70

Abstract

Recently, governments strive to make housing affordable for residents. Affordable housing is not restricted only to the house prices, but it includes also the quality and amenities of the house. So, the main aim of this research is to develop affordable housing performance indicators (AHPI) for landed houses. It's based mainly on Mulliner and Malienes criteria for affordable housing and the concept of grow home for Friedman and Cammalleri. Taman Selasih (TS) and Taman Lukut Makmur (TLM) in Negeri Sembilan were chosen as a case study. They were constructed by Syarikat Perumahan Negara Berhad (SPNB) in the central region of Malaysia. The sample consists of 155 units in TS and 93 units in TLM. A physical survey was conducted to assess the housing affordability for TS and TLM by field observation and informal interviews with the residents. The collected data were analyzed via SPSS software. The result shows that fourteen criteria can be applied as AHPI for landed houses, namely; houses prices in relation to income, safety- incidence of crime, access to employment, access to public transport facilities, access to good quality schools, access to shopping facilities, access to health care, access to child care, access to leisure facilities, access to open green public space, quality of housing, energy efficiency, land properties and new spaces. The value of this research comes from proposing a set of criteria that could be used as affordable housing performance indicators (AHPI) to assess the performance of landed houses.

Highlights

A house is one of the basic human needs; most daily life practices of people occur at home
Variables are divided into dependent variables and independent variables according to their role in the study
The fourteen criteria were tested in the case of Taman Selasih and Taman Lukut Makmur

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Introduction

A house is one of the basic human needs; most daily life practices of people occur at home. To satisfy the human need for a home, a diverse range of concepts has risen to make housing more affordable to families and individuals; and one such concept has ‘grow home’. Grow home aims to build houses for sale, which can be afforded by low-income families (Friedman & Cammalleri, 1994). Affordability concerns to make the housing affordable for every household. It is not meant low prices; it needs a lot of work to give a good quality (Kim et al, 2004). Housing affordability is a feature of housing and housing service in relation to consumer ability and desire to own or buy the houses (Yang & Shen, 2008)

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