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The 7th Avenue housing development in Kuching, designed by Design Network Architects and constructed by Jak Kwang Builders & Developers Sdn Bhd, is innovative for its inclusion of internal courtyards which let natural light and ventilation into the living spaces.
committed to providing affordable housing for lower income earners
and insists that all developments include
an affordable housing component. The government itself also provides new low-cost homes at below cost for lower income earners, through vehicles such as the Housing Development Corporation Sarawak (HDC), National Housing Department, PR1MA Housing Corporation and National Housing Company Berhad (SPNB). The next category up, low-medium cost housing, targets low- to-average income earners and is also provided below cost in conjunction with the private sector; all
developments are required to have a percentage
of low-medium-cost homes, cross-subsidized by sales of the more expensive properties in the
development. Some private sector players, such as
the Naim Group, have also targeted the affordable housing sector, using innovative construction
President of SHEDA, Tuan Haji Zaidi Bin Haji Ahmad; Minister of Tourism & Minister of Housing, YB Datuk Amar Abang Haji Abdul Rahman Zohari bin Tun Datuk Abang Haji Openg; Ashley Ang, Sales & Marketing Manager, CMS Property Development Sdn Bhd; Assistant Minister of Housing, Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah at the SARBEX Total Living 2013 event.