Assessment of residential satisfaction in newly designed public low-cost housing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
This paper provides an assessment of residential satisfaction of newly designed public low-cost housing dwellers of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with forty-five variables grouped into five components – dwelling unit features, dwelling unit support services, public facilities, social environment and nei...
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Elsevier Ltd.
2010
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| Summary: | This paper provides an assessment of residential satisfaction of newly designed public low-cost housing
dwellers of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with forty-five variables grouped into five components – dwelling unit
features, dwelling unit support services, public facilities, social environment and neighbourhood facilities.
Findings from the study indicate that the residents are moderately satisfied with dwelling unit support
services, followed by public and neighbourhood facilities than dwelling unit features and social environment,
which have higher percentage of respondents with low level of satisfaction. Residential satisfaction
index has high positive correlations with dwelling unit features, social environment, support services and
public facilities, and low positive correlation with neighbourhood facilities. Socio-economic attributes of
the residents such as age, family size, working wives, previous residence are negatively correlated with
residential satisfaction, whereas residents’ race, employment type, floor level and length of residency are
positively correlated with residential satisfaction. A Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) model has been
estimated for the study and the model provides 76% explanations to determine residential satisfaction with
ten predictor variables. The high beta coefficients of themodel suggest that residential satisfaction of public
low-cost housing can be enhanced through improving the management of security control, perimeter
roads, cleanliness of garbage house and garbage collection, by the Local authority (KLCH). Moderate beta
coefficient values of the model suggest that improvement of housing design is necessary to enhance
residents’ satisfaction with the predictor variables such as dry area, bedroom-1, dinning space, socket
points and bedroom-3. From socio-economic analysis, it was found that the size of existing low-cost unit
does not satisfy the needs of 29.4% inhabitants with large (6þ) families and high bedroom occupancy rates
(2.5). Furthermore, the location of future low-cost housing estates should also consider their closeness to
the shopping centres. Public agencies for low-cost housing should pay proper attention to themanagement
of support and public facilities to enhance residential satisfaction of the inhabitants and also adopt a policy
to build different sizes of units to cater the needs of residents with large families in order to enhance quality
of life of the low-income urban community in the country. |
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