Affordable housing has become essential, especially in developing countries, to cater the people needs on house. Most of the affordable housing focus is on providing house at affordable prices, but the locations of these affordable housing often not suitable with demand of people. Several initiatives were conducted to identified the demand of people, and the suitability of their houses with their demand. These model has different purpose, and lack of spatial element. Some model defining the people preference in order to choose a suitable for their house, while other model focusing on goals that relate to the site suitability of house that involve several cities. This study focus on integrating spatial information and analysis to assessing the suitability level of affordable housing in Malaysia. The assessment model consists of four main indicators; suitable site of affordable house, demographic factor, suitability house according neighbourhood context, and commute distance. With proper assessment, a better location can be defined, or more suitable facilities can be implement in the future in surrounding area of these affordable housing.
Affordable housing has become essential to provide housing with affordable prices, but most of the locations of affordable housing are often not suitable with the people’s demand. To assess the suitability of affordable housing, several initiatives has been developed, to match the demand and location of the affordable housing, but most the models lacks of spatial element, other model focusing on the goal related to site suitability to cities, and people’s preferences of housing. This study aims to integrating spatial information and analysis to assessing the suitability level of affordable housing in Malaysia. This assessment model consists of 3 main indicators; suitability house according to neighbourhood context, demographic factor and commute distance. The method use in this study is using multi-Criteria Analysis, using weighted scoring techniques. The results show that most of the affordable housing score more than 60% average, with the highest score are 84% and the lowest score are 57.9%. this shows that the suitability level of affordable housing in the study area is good. These indicators can be used for further investigation of other affordable housing, and also in finding the suitable site for affordable housing in the future.
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