This document discusses delivering more affordable housing through partnerships. It provides context about housing rights and aims to increase affordable housing. Some key points made include that developing affordable housing can promote economic development by supporting construction industries and employees. The document also compares housing in the UK and Australia, noting differences in tenures and policies around social housing. It suggests strategies like enabling affordable development, encouraging employer involvement, and using housing equity as a way to form partnerships to increase affordable options.

1. Delivering more affordable housing through partnershipsKuala Lumpur Michael Newey BSc FRICS FCIH MAHI RICS Vice President

2. Purposes and key message

3. Agenda

4. Personal Context for my remarks

5. The “day job”

6. Australian experiences 2008/9

7. Macro context – the bigger picture!

8. Rights to housing

9. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

10. Housing rights in the UK

11. Housing rights in Victoria, Australia

12. Some Malaysian context

13. Malaysian Quality of Life 1999

14. MQLI – Housing Indicators

15. Housing aims within the 10th Malaysia Plan

16. 10 MP Housing targets

17. 10 MP Initiatives

18. Relevant National Housing Policy Statements

19. Published housing need in Malaysia

20. Housing and the economy

21. Economic success and effective housing

22. Housing and the economy

23. UK Construction Industry Source: ONS and UK Contractors Group Source: Shelter UK /ONS Housing development IS economic development

24. Housing and employees Source: UN Population Division, World Urbanisation Prospects 2003

25. Some Comparative stories

26. Housing Tenures in UK and Australia

27. Key reasons for differences

28. “Welfare” housing in the UK

29. Low Cost Home Ownership

30. House price inflation is not just a UK problem ...

31. Some key lessons from UK and Victoria

32. Housing Realities

33. Perhaps stating the obvious ...

34. Enabling Housing Strategies

35. Development drivers

36. Employer roles – examples from the past

37. Another Victorian Employer – model industrial housing

38. Potential for modern day Cadburys and Levers

39. Section 106 in England – enforced partnerships?

40. Housing equity – investment and CSR?

41. Brief conclusions