The Hurdle Delivering Affordable Housing: Experienced from Pr1ma Project

   

1,2 Nadzirah Zainordin*, 1 Kuhan Manoharan, 1 Zamzarina Md Judyar, 1 Ahmad Faris Omar
1 Center of Building & Resilient Development, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, SEGi University.

2 UTM Razak School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, UTM Kuala Lumpur

Journal of Engineering & Technological Advances
Vol. 4, Issue 2, pp. 49-63 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.35934/segi.v4i2.49

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Abstract

Affordable housing is a program that introduced by the government to improve housing affordability which ensure every income earner group could afford houses, especially for low-income households. Affordable sustainable housing project has no clear definition so far but the concept of needs, which seeks to ensure that the essential needs of the poor are adequately met; and the need for addressing every limitation arising from the use of technology and activities of social elements affecting the environment’s ability to meet the present and future needs, may to consider to define as general idea. This paper its to discuss the barrier factor on delivering affordable housing project. By using the latest 10 years of publication for extensive literature review methodology and a questionnaire generated from the literature review further sending to 50 respondents who experienced PR1MA project which this perhaps may contribute in enhancing the existing knowledge.

Keywords:

Definition of Affordable Housing, Affordable Housing, Criteria of Affordable Housing