Affordable housing pushed further out of Indonesia's city centres


JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network): Those looking for a subsidized home – the only type of property affordable to most Indonesians – must look further and further away from the city as prices rise in urban centres.

Tri Dewi Virgiyanti, director of housing and settlement at the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), said on Thursday (Oct 14)that most houses located near city centres were already unaffordable for an increasing number of middle-to-low-income groups.

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