Malaysia

Abstract

Prior to independence in 1957, the concept of public housing was known as ‘the institutional quarters’ (Agus 1989b). Under this concept, the British administration provided housing facilities for the upper class British employees who worked in public institutions such as hospitals, schools and district offices. The only programme aimed at providing housing for the Malayan people was part of the British administration strategy to weaken the support for communist insurgencies by concentrating on the resettlement of Chinese residents in the New Villages all over the country. After independence, the concept of public housing changed from merely providing housing for government officials to that of the home owning democracy, a vision for the housing of all sections of society. As one element of this, the public low cost housing programme was implemented and targeted specifically towards poor households whose incomes were below Malaysian Ringgit (RM) 300 a month.1

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