Housing...An act? Or a Product?
What is the meaning of Housing?
According to Wikipedia, housing is a building lived in by people. The word "house" may also refer to a building that shelters animals, especially in a zoo.
It generally has walls and a roof to shelter its enclosed space from precipitation, wind, heat, cold, and other elements. Domestic pets and "unwanted" animals (such as mice) often live in houses.
The social unit that lives in a house is known as a household. Most commonly, a household is a family unit of some kind, though households can be other social groups, such as single persons, or groups of unrelated individuals. Settled agrarian and industrial societies are composed of household units living permanently in housing of various types, according to a variety of forms of Land tenure. English-speaking people generally call any building they routinely occupy "home". Many people leave their house during the day for work and recreation but typically return to it to sleep or for other activities.
What are the housing problems facing in Malaysia?
In Malaysia, there are not all people afford to buy a house, or even a low-cost-house.
This is because nowadays, houses are very expensive.
Besides, the space in Malaysia is limited. There are not enough area to build houses. Hence, this causes the price of the land in Malaysia inceases every year.
Why there is a housing problem in Malaysia?
This is because when the price of the petrol increases, it will indirectly affect the pricing of everything, include the pricing of the real estate. This will then increasing the cost of the houses. Therefore, people have to earn more money to purchase a house.
Housing as a product:
What is the meaning of Housing?
According to Wikipedia, housing is a building lived in by people. The word "house" may also refer to a building that shelters animals, especially in a zoo.
It generally has walls and a roof to shelter its enclosed space from precipitation, wind, heat, cold, and other elements. Domestic pets and "unwanted" animals (such as mice) often live in houses.
The social unit that lives in a house is known as a household. Most commonly, a household is a family unit of some kind, though households can be other social groups, such as single persons, or groups of unrelated individuals. Settled agrarian and industrial societies are composed of household units living permanently in housing of various types, according to a variety of forms of Land tenure. English-speaking people generally call any building they routinely occupy "home". Many people leave their house during the day for work and recreation but typically return to it to sleep or for other activities.
What are the housing problems facing in Malaysia?
In Malaysia, there are not all people afford to buy a house, or even a low-cost-house.
This is because nowadays, houses are very expensive.
Besides, the space in Malaysia is limited. There are not enough area to build houses. Hence, this causes the price of the land in Malaysia inceases every year.
Why there is a housing problem in Malaysia?
This is because when the price of the petrol increases, it will indirectly affect the pricing of everything, include the pricing of the real estate. This will then increasing the cost of the houses. Therefore, people have to earn more money to purchase a house.
Housing as a product:
Housing (n) [Perumahan] = Product
Housing are the buildings or other shelters in which people live. It is a place to live or a dwelling.
It involve different form such as aggregation, division...
There are different types of houses, such as bungalow, farmhouse, victorian house, treehouse...
There are different cost level of housing, such as low cost housing, medium cost housing and high cost housing.
And it also different in management such as self management or condominium where all people involve manage things together.
Different types of houses.
Housing as an act
Housing (v) [Merumahkan] = Act
Nowadays, people mostly see housing as an act but not as a product.
There are five main category in housing as people see housing as an act .That is :
1)Hand keys
This is use when the house owner moved into the ready-made house.
2)Structure and infill.
Infill on existing structure. For example, put in furniture, television, cupboard and others to upgrade the indoor environment of a house.
3)Core house
A core house is a house put on the site with basic amenities, i.e. water and electricity only. Toilet and one room of core house are built and sell it to the public. The buyer can renovate and extent the house again as long as he/she afford.
4)Site and service
To build on the existing infrastructure
5)Provide land
Land is needed to build the houses.
Questions :
Encik Wan Burhanuddin had gave us some question to think about:
1) What is the difference between Housing as a verb(act) and as a noun(product)?
Answer :Housing as an act refer to the process of a building from construction,to usage and then to the demolition but as an product, it refer to the building that people live inside or use it as a shelter to get protection
2) Who is the actors who use housing as a product?
Answer : Those actors are house owner and house user.
3) Who are the actors who use housing as an act?
Answer : The actor who use housing as an act are the land owners, developers, occupants, designers such as architects, planner and interior designers, contractors and government.
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