When well-meaning policies don't take off the ground


  • Letters
  • Sunday, 09 May 2004

Although well-meaning, the government's efforts to provide housing for the poor are sometimes hampered by weak implementation, reports IVY SOON. 

CLEARING cities of squatter settlements have recently become an important government agenda, with Kuala Lumpur and Selangor vowing to be declared squatter-free by 2005. High-rise low-cost flats have been built to solve the housing needs of the evicted urban poor. 

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