{"id":3009,"date":"2019-05-09T11:46:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T11:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiapropertyawards.com\/?p=3009"},"modified":"2021-06-04T14:23:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T07:23:15","slug":"malaysias-mid-income-housing-scheme-undergoing-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiapropertyawards.com\/en\/malaysias-mid-income-housing-scheme-undergoing-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia&#8217;s mid-income housing scheme undergoing transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ambitious government programme has been a letdown to middle-class Malaysians looking to own a home<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3010\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3010\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3010\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asiapropertyawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/shutterstock_106304537.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asiapropertyawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/shutterstock_106304537.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.asiapropertyawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/shutterstock_106304537-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.asiapropertyawards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/shutterstock_106304537-768x508.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Ijansempoi\/Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A government housing scheme for middle-income earners will be undergoing a &#8216;transformation exercise&#8217;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesundaily.my\/business\/more-homes-for-m40-pr1ma-YJ856256\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Sun Daily<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Perumahan Rakyat 1Malaysia (PR1MA), also known as the 1Malaysia Housing Programme, is participating in a due diligence process until June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a government entity, PR1MA is committed to ensure that its obligation with stakeholders including homebuyers is honoured, while at the same time, we are also embarking on a transformation exercise that will enable PR1MA to maximize the effectiveness of the change effort that is taking place within the organisation to further improve our business and operations,\u201d said PR1MA acting CEO Mohd Nazri Md Shariff in a statement to the press.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiapropertyawards.com\/malaysias-exemplary-projects-reflect-speedy-journey-to-developed-nation-status\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>More: Malaysia\u2019s exemplary projects reflect speedy journey to developed-nation status<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PR1MA has achieved sales bookings of around 10,200 homes with a value of MYR2.56 billion (USD616 million) within three months of the launch of the Home Ownership Campaign (HOC 2019), he added.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme was established to promote home ownership among middle-income Malaysian households that had been underserved by housing programmes which gave inordinate focus on lower-income earners.<\/p>\n<p>However, only 16,682 units, representing 1.6 percent of the target, were built between 2013 and 2018 for PR1MA. Around 1.42 million people have registered for the programme to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambitious government programme has been a letdown to middle-class Malaysians looking to own a home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":20045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[125,201,202],"class_list":["post-3009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-malaysia","tag-pr1ma","tag-public-housing","news_country-malaysia","news_author-property-report"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Malaysia&#039;s mid-income housing scheme undergoing transformation | Asia Property Awards<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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