After 14 years, report shows little progress made to make homes affordable
Khazanah Research Institute said in its latest report on housing that little has improved to make housing affordable between 2002 and 2016. — Reuters pic
And the root cause of the problem, the “Rethinking Housing: Between Market, State and Society” report concluded, are dated policies. The new study, authored by KRI research director Suraya Ismail, was prepared as a background research for the National Housing Policy , the action plan unveiled by the Pakatan Harapan government for housing reform.
At the moment, Suraya said many existing policies are built around patchy information taken from silo sources.
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