Siw, Jing Yi (2022) Main factor influencing housing affordability in liveable city: Case study in Petaling Jaya. Final Year Project, UTAR.
Abstract
Concept of liveable city has become common for Malaysia today due to rapid urbanization process in Malaysia. Liveable city can be used to represent the principles of sustainable city development. Fast urban growth in city cause increasing of housing price, so that medium and low income household are difficult to own a house in private housing market. This research aims to determine the factors influencing housing affordability price in liveable city that focusing on middle-income household in Petaling Jaya. 100 set of online questionnaires are collected from Petaling Jaya resident to analysis and examine each factor by using Microsoft Excel and Software Package for Social Science (SPSS). This research delivers the outcomes that income factor, affordable housing scheme factor, government subsidies factor, property investment factor and infrastructure factor bring influence on the housing affordability. However, government subsidies factor is the most main factor among other factors. In conclusion, government and policy controllers should take effort on controlling the issue of raising housing price in city area to increase homeownership rate in Malaysia’s city area.
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