Saturday, June 02, 2007

Low-cost House: More is Less?



Good news? Prime Minister Pak Lah officially announced that City hall will be building low-cost houses at RM35,000 with 3-bedroom and 2-baths from 3-bedroom and 1-bath. That's fantastic!!!! The listeners were so delighted.

Anyway, it was not expressly explained that the house will still be 650 feet square as it has always been. So, how did the manage the space for the additional bath? Originally, the bedroom is already so claustrophobic and the 3rd room is less than 80 sq ft and the kitchen was about 50sq. ft. Now with the bath, the space from the dining or kitchen will have to be shrunk or that the new additional bath will have to be built outside the house, at the backyard.

I am not sure if you have ever tried to stay in one of those houses, but unless your family are so destitute, you may rather rent a house in a village at RM100 a month with a space of at least 800 ft sq or might as well go back to the kampung lifestyle which is far much comfortable.

3 comments:

Monsterball said...

I visited someone who lives in such a flat - its really cramped to the point of feeling very uneasy if you are unused to such a small personal space. Given that often quite large families live in these homes - more than 6 family members, you have the root cause of many social problems - wayward teenagers, domestic quarrels etc.

Chicken Ball said...

whatever it is... must make very sure that no water piping are running above the ceiling!!! LOL!

Anonymous said...

The goverment can have beautiful plan on paper to built houses for the poor. All this while, in all the 5 years Malaysian Plan, less than 35% of number projected house are build. They fail and fail.
The state government build 200 house in one area, 20,000 application for this houses. WOW. The federal govt. build noting and the new Federal housing department spent RM250 million but noting is being built.

God bless them.