How these low-cost flats came out tops

Record-breaking: Rumah Pangsa Orkid is the first low-cost property to achieve the top standard for quality management.

STOLEN cars and motorcycles, break-ins, rubbish strewn about, open slaughtering of chickens, and uncooperative residents.... Needless to say, these problems made Rumah Pangsa Orkid, a low cost flat property in Ulu Tiram, Johor, far from an ideal place to live in back in 2004.

But today, the 312-unit development has transformed itself into a clean, organised and safe community, reducing crime in the area by 95% and installing 65 CCTV cameras.