Housing development and prima: myth or reality?

One of the mechanisms in promoting housing development in a country is by having sufficient legal provisions regulating land matters and development. Recently the Malaysian Parliament has passed a new act relating to housing in Malaysia that is Perumahan Rakyat 1 Malaysia 2011(hereinafter referred...

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Main Author: Sufian, Azlinor
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2012
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spelling iium-251082012-11-06T12:34:36Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/25108/ Housing development and prima: myth or reality? Sufian, Azlinor K Law (General) NA Architecture One of the mechanisms in promoting housing development in a country is by having sufficient legal provisions regulating land matters and development. Recently the Malaysian Parliament has passed a new act relating to housing in Malaysia that is Perumahan Rakyat 1 Malaysia 2011(hereinafter referred to as “PR1MA”). It is alleged that the purpose of the Act inter alia to give opportunity to the middle income class citizens to buy houses where the corporation established through PR1MA will take care of the housing development. .evertheless having read through the Act, it is observed that there are many ambiguities and uncertainties as to the functions of the corporation and how the corporation will carry out such functions. This paper is aimed at analysing the provisions of PR1MA Act 2011 with the intention to present the strengths and weaknesses of the Act. As this paper will involve pure legal discussions, it will use the qualitative approach and the law and practices in Scotland may be referred to as comparison. 2012 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/25108/1/Housing_development_and_prima.pdf Sufian, Azlinor (2012) Housing development and prima: myth or reality? In: 1st International Conference on Innovation and Technology for Sustainable Built Environment 2012 (ICITSBE 2012), 16-17 April 2012, Sri Iskandar, Perak. http://www.perak.uitm.edu.my/ncitsbe2012/
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Housing development and prima: myth or reality?
description One of the mechanisms in promoting housing development in a country is by having sufficient legal provisions regulating land matters and development. Recently the Malaysian Parliament has passed a new act relating to housing in Malaysia that is Perumahan Rakyat 1 Malaysia 2011(hereinafter referred to as “PR1MA”). It is alleged that the purpose of the Act inter alia to give opportunity to the middle income class citizens to buy houses where the corporation established through PR1MA will take care of the housing development. .evertheless having read through the Act, it is observed that there are many ambiguities and uncertainties as to the functions of the corporation and how the corporation will carry out such functions. This paper is aimed at analysing the provisions of PR1MA Act 2011 with the intention to present the strengths and weaknesses of the Act. As this paper will involve pure legal discussions, it will use the qualitative approach and the law and practices in Scotland may be referred to as comparison.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Sufian, Azlinor
author_facet Sufian, Azlinor
author_sort Sufian, Azlinor
title Housing development and prima: myth or reality?
title_short Housing development and prima: myth or reality?
title_full Housing development and prima: myth or reality?
title_fullStr Housing development and prima: myth or reality?
title_full_unstemmed Housing development and prima: myth or reality?
title_sort housing development and prima: myth or reality?
publishDate 2012
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/25108/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/25108/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/25108/1/Housing_development_and_prima.pdf
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