Kuala Lampur, May 23 -- Malaysia, through the Ministry of Local Government and Housing, will lead the conversation on affordable housing through its chairmanship of Asean in 2025. Ahead of the Asean Summit 2025 and as our country officially bids for the UN-Habitat General Assembly Presidency for the 2026-2029 term this month, we must seriously consider a shift in the way we think about housing affordability in this country.

It is important to recognize that when we talk about housing affordability (or in this case, the lack of it), what we are really saying is that either, (1) houses are too expensive, or (2) that people are not earning enough, or (3) that both these statements are true.

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