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Affordable Mosaic Housing:
Re-thinking low
 –
cost housing
10/12/2009Affordable Mosaic Housing: Re-thinkinglow
 –
cost housing1
 
Abstract
The very term "Low Cost Housing"assumes that the challenge is to findinnovative ways toreducethecostofbuildinghousesandindoingso, making itaffordabletoeveryfamilytoown,regardless of their income level..In this paper, we approach the subjectfrom a social perspective, in particularthe problem is seen through a socialstandpoint. From thispoint of view,itbecomesobviousthatplacement and concentratingfamiliesofthepoor-financiallyandsociallystressed -in one location, does notmake sense. The higher theconcentration of people in these lowcost housing areas, the moreunmanageable the social problemsbecome.The Affordable Mosaic Housing modelof cluster houses and clusteredneighbourhoods aims to producebetter a better social by introducing agreater mix of housing types on eachstreet and each neighbbourhood.
10/12/2009
Affordable Mosaic Housing:Re-thinking low
 –
cost housing
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Low Cost Housing inMalaysia
In Malaysia the provision of Low costhouses is shared between the publicand private sector.
In the 80’s the public sector housing is
undertaken by Government agencieslike the State Economic DevelopmentCorporations.The private sector undertook theconstruction of Low cost housesthrough a rule that required housingdevelopers to have 30% of what theybuild to be Low cost houses.
In the 80’s and 90’s (until 1998 at
least), the private sector outperformedthe public sector.
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