Public low cost housing administration in Southeast Asian countries

Abstract

This research studied public low cost housing administration in Southeast Asia. Four countries were selected: Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia and Thailand. The existing problems have led to project failures comprising project delay, higher project cost, housing management and maintenance problems, etc.. The objectives of this research were to explore and to investigate the low cost housing administration in Southeast Asian countries by selecting case studies from Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia and Thailand. The study explained administration process from the past to the present of low cost housing process. Other developing countries can use it as a guideline to study and improve their project implementation. The research methodology consisted of collection by survey, interview and field visit distributing questionnaire, taking photographs and observation. Low cost housing can be divided into 9 stages: policy, feasibility study, land acquisition, finance, design and planning, bidding, construction, delivery and maintenance. This thesis presents two parts of the study, the first part was to study from literatures and to interview project managers, decision makers and others who are responsible for low cost housing project in order to define low cost housing process, problems and constraints, success factors in each stage of government projects from the point of view of the owner. The second part was to determine critical success factors in each stage. The result of analyzing critical success factors in each stage of low cost housing process are from using Significant Indexes, for example, Policy: (1) Affordability, (2) Resource capacity, (3) Housing need, (4) Government budget, and (5) Infrastructure support. Feasibility study: (1) Finance, (2) Housing needs, (3) Resource, (4) Infrastructure support, and (5) affordability Finance: (1) Housing bank, (2) Affordability, (3) Government support (Guarantee), (4) Interest rate, and (5) Loan, etc. This research will give an insight toward the administrative works, processes, organization and framework, key factors for successful implementation of low cost housing projects. The study benefits to the future implementation of low cost housing projects in several countries in Southeast Asia.