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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