Viewing Affordable Housing Through A Holistic Lens

Dr Consilz Tan, Research Fellow, Centre for Market Education & Senior Lecturer, Xiamen University Malaysia

19-Jan-26 08:45

Viewing Affordable Housing Through A Holistic Lens

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Recently, the Real Estate and Housing Developers’ Association (Rehda) Institute announced that homeownership among Malaysia’s middle-income M40 group has fallen below that of the low-income B40 rate. Dr Consilz Tan, Research Fellow, Centre for Market Education & Senior Lecturer, Xiamen University Malaysia helps us make sense of the data and if there is any validity to claims that the drop is due to a housing model that depends on cross-subsidisation.

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Produced by: Khadijah Kubra, Sharraadh Jeyakuhan

Presented by: Wong Shou Ning, Philip See

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Categories: government, economy, Corporates, managing, property

Tags: M40 housing, B40 housing, Real Estate and Housing Developers’ Association (Rehda) Institute, malaysian homewonership, cross-subsidisation housing,

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