A brand new “pay-per-use” system for shared facility upkeep is being studied for future reasonably priced housing developments, stated Housing and Native Authorities Minister Nga Kor Ming.
Talking on the Kuala Lumpur Structure Week (KLAW) 2025, Nga stated the initiative is a part of broader housing reforms geared toward enhancing fairness in public housing. Beneath the proposed system, residents will use entry playing cards to trace their utilization of shared services—akin to swimming pools, gyms, and courts—and be charged primarily based on precise utilization relatively than a hard and fast month-to-month upkeep price.
The idea is being piloted at Rumah Bakat Madani in Penang – SkyWorld Pearlmont. The undertaking contains a clubhouse with an infinity pool, pickleball and badminton courts, a health club, and a kids’s playground. Nga stated this mannequin will function a reference for future public housing initiatives and may incorporate vertical colleges to enhance academic entry for low-income communities.
“The purpose is to lift trade requirements and create a extra equitable housing panorama,” Nga stated.
The Rumah Bakat Madani initiative is the nation’s largest reasonably priced housing undertaking to this point, providing 900-square-foot freehold condominiums geared up with fashionable facilities and shared services.
Nga additionally highlighted the ministry’s purpose to contain extra non-public gamers in establishing Industrialised Constructing System (IBS) services to speed up the adoption of modular development strategies akin to Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Development. This transfer helps sustainable city progress by decreasing waste and limiting air pollution.
KLAW 2025, held as a curtain-raiser for the ASEAN Actual Property Convention and the twenty fourth Worldwide Structure, Inside Design and Constructing Exhibition, is anticipated to draw over 50,000 worldwide guests and generate RM2 billion in transactions.
