Housing for disabled people: what do they need?

Across the world, people with disabilities, advocacy companies, key non-authorities and government stakeholders are trying to find approaches to enhance housing assist preparations for the disabled people. In order to do so, the housing industry should be more adaptive to meet the demand of the peop...

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Main Authors:	Ab Rahman, Syakir Amir, Samsudin, Nasriah, Mohamed Osman, Mariana, Bachok, Syahriah, Rabe, Noor Suzilawati
Format:	Article
Language:	English English
Published:	Malaysian Institute of Planners 2018
Subjects:	H Social Sciences (General) HD Industries. Land use. Labor
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spelling	iium-664412018-10-04T06:36:48Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/66441/ Housing for disabled people: what do they need? Ab Rahman, Syakir Amir Samsudin, Nasriah Mohamed Osman, Mariana Bachok, Syahriah Rabe, Noor Suzilawati H Social Sciences (General) HD Industries. Land use. Labor Across the world, people with disabilities, advocacy companies, key non-authorities and government stakeholders are trying to find approaches to enhance housing assist preparations for the disabled people. In order to do so, the housing industry should be more adaptive to meet the demand of the people with special needs. The government also needs to plan for suitable housing policies for all groups of people. Housing is the central focus for human being including the disabled people and houses that follow housing standard for the disabled will improve their quality of life. The objective of this paper is to study the preferences in terms of price, location and design factors in owning a residential property among the disabled community in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor. A survey questionnaires was distributed to 400 respondents of the disabled community. The survey focused on two categories of disability, which are the physical disability and visual impairment. The outcome of this study describes the preferences in owning a residential property in term of price, location and design of the property. Recommendation was then made on housing strategy in planning for the price, location and design of residential property for the disabled community in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor. Malaysian Institute of Planners 2018 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/66441/1/Housing%20for%20Disabled%20People%20What%20do%20they%20need%20Planning%20Malaysia%202018.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/66441/7/66441_Housing%20for%20disabled%20people_scopus.pdf Ab Rahman, Syakir Amir and Samsudin, Nasriah and Mohamed Osman, Mariana and Bachok, Syahriah and Rabe, Noor Suzilawati (2018) Housing for disabled people: what do they need? Planning Malaysia Journal, 16 (2). pp. 266-274. ISSN 1675-6215 http://www.planningmalaysia.org/index.php/pmj/article/view/481
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spellingShingle	H Social Sciences (General) HD Industries. Land use. Labor Ab Rahman, Syakir Amir Samsudin, Nasriah Mohamed Osman, Mariana Bachok, Syahriah Rabe, Noor Suzilawati Housing for disabled people: what do they need?
description	Across the world, people with disabilities, advocacy companies, key non-authorities and government stakeholders are trying to find approaches to enhance housing assist preparations for the disabled people. In order to do so, the housing industry should be more adaptive to meet the demand of the people with special needs. The government also needs to plan for suitable housing policies for all groups of people. Housing is the central focus for human being including the disabled people and houses that follow housing standard for the disabled will improve their quality of life. The objective of this paper is to study the preferences in terms of price, location and design factors in owning a residential property among the disabled community in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor. A survey questionnaires was distributed to 400 respondents of the disabled community. The survey focused on two categories of disability, which are the physical disability and visual impairment. The outcome of this study describes the preferences in owning a residential property in term of price, location and design of the property. Recommendation was then made on housing strategy in planning for the price, location and design of residential property for the disabled community in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor.
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author	Ab Rahman, Syakir Amir Samsudin, Nasriah Mohamed Osman, Mariana Bachok, Syahriah Rabe, Noor Suzilawati
author_facet	Ab Rahman, Syakir Amir Samsudin, Nasriah Mohamed Osman, Mariana Bachok, Syahriah Rabe, Noor Suzilawati
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title	Housing for disabled people: what do they need?
title_short	Housing for disabled people: what do they need?
title_full	Housing for disabled people: what do they need?
title_fullStr	Housing for disabled people: what do they need?
title_full_unstemmed	Housing for disabled people: what do they need?
title_sort	housing for disabled people: what do they need?
publisher	Malaysian Institute of Planners
publishDate	2018
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