OPINION – Housing Minister Dr Abdulla Muththalib sets out the government’s next stage of housing policy: four programmes designed to mobilise private finance for affordable homes, reserve controlled-price units for first-time buyers, and protect social housing for the most vulnerable.
“Price control without buyer targeting does not deliver affordable homeownership. Instead, it delivers affordable investments,” he writes, reflecting on the lessons of the earlier HDC model.
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