A study on the abandonment of housing projects in the state of Kedah, Malaysia

Housing projects remaining incomplete or abandoned at a later time have been almost regular phenomena in recent decades in Malaysia. According to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government of Malaysia, by the end of 2004, a total of 227 housing projects were abandoned, involving 75,356 units and 5...

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Main Authors:	Mohit, Mohammad Abdul, Nursobah, Siti
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2005
Subjects:	HT101 Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/33732/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/33732/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/33732/1/Index.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/33732/2/W36._Mohit%2C_M.pdf

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spelling	iium-337322014-01-03T08:31:02Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/33732/ A study on the abandonment of housing projects in the state of Kedah, Malaysia Mohit, Mohammad Abdul Nursobah, Siti HT101 Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology Housing projects remaining incomplete or abandoned at a later time have been almost regular phenomena in recent decades in Malaysia. According to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government of Malaysia, by the end of 2004, a total of 227 housing projects were abandoned, involving 75,356 units and 50,813 house buyers and the total value stands at RM7.03 or US$1.9 billions. Nevertheless, so far no systematic study has been done to analyse the situation, identify the reasons and impacts on different parties. Therefore, this paper is focused to identify the reasons and study the different impacts of the abandonment of housing projects in the state of Kedah, Malaysia, where a total of 22 projects were declared abandoned during 1987-1996, involving 4,056 units of houses worth of RM313.8 or US$83.7 million. 2005-09 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/33732/1/Index.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/33732/2/W36._Mohit%2C_M.pdf Mohit, Mohammad Abdul and Nursobah, Siti (2005) A study on the abandonment of housing projects in the state of Kedah, Malaysia. In: The Asia-Pacific Network for Housing Research Conference 2005, 6-8 September 2005, Kobe, Japan. http://www2.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hiraken/apnhr_conf/
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description	Housing projects remaining incomplete or abandoned at a later time have been almost regular phenomena in recent decades in Malaysia. According to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government of Malaysia, by the end of 2004, a total of 227 housing projects were abandoned, involving 75,356 units and 50,813 house buyers and the total value stands at RM7.03 or US$1.9 billions. Nevertheless, so far no systematic study has been done to analyse the situation, identify the reasons and impacts on different parties. Therefore, this paper is focused to identify the reasons and study the different impacts of the abandonment of housing projects in the state of Kedah, Malaysia, where a total of 22 projects were declared abandoned during 1987-1996, involving 4,056 units of houses worth of RM313.8 or US$83.7 million.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Mohit, Mohammad Abdul Nursobah, Siti
author_facet	Mohit, Mohammad Abdul Nursobah, Siti
author_sort	Mohit, Mohammad Abdul
title	A study on the abandonment of housing projects in the state of Kedah, Malaysia
title_short	A study on the abandonment of housing projects in the state of Kedah, Malaysia
title_full	A study on the abandonment of housing projects in the state of Kedah, Malaysia
title_fullStr	A study on the abandonment of housing projects in the state of Kedah, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	A study on the abandonment of housing projects in the state of Kedah, Malaysia
title_sort	study on the abandonment of housing projects in the state of kedah, malaysia
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A study on the abandonment of housing projects in the state of Kedah, Malaysia

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