On Friday, Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng lamented the difficulty in securing housing loans faced by prospective home owners and called out lending institutions to be more lenient in providing financing. While he received a lot of criticism for his speech, I am personally in agreement with him. Indeed, banks should not simply be rejecting …
Land Value Capture is a rarely discussed policy tool. Interestingly, this was brought upon during a discussion session in the Malaysia Urban Forum 2019. The idea is to capture increment in land value for the purpose of urban regeneration. But what is land value capture? The Lincoln Land Institute Policy defines value capture “as a …
Bila mana isu rumah mampu milik dibicarakan, perkara yang dibincangkan adalah harga. Seringkali rumah mampu milik dinilai berdasarkan harga semata-mata. Dan isu harga ini pun perdebatannya tak berkesudahan. Ada pemaju yang mengatakan rumah berharga RM500,000 sebagai mampu milik. Ada yang mengiklankan rumah mampu milik, tapi harganya RM700,000. Rumah PR1MA dahulu disasarkan pada harga sehingga RM500,000. …
The historic results of the 14th Malaysian general election saw the rise of the Malaysian people who were fed up with kleptocracy and mismanagement of the country and its funds. The BN regime which had been in power for more than six decades finally fell and was replaced by the Pakatan Harapan coalition. However, with …
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