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Indonesia's housing backlog rises to 15 million this year: Deputy Minister
Public Housing and Settlements Minister Fahri Hamzah said the backlog, which measures the gap between home demand and existing ownership, is estimated to have increased to 15 million from the previous 9.9 million to 12 million units in the past two years.
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Visitors look at a scale model of a
housing complex on April 24, 2024, at an exhibition in
Tangerang, Banten. (Antara/Muhammad Iqbal)
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he housing backlog has increased, Public Housing and Settlements Minister Fahri Hamzah has said, citing recent data from Statistics Indonesia (BPS).
He said the backlog, which measures the gap between home demand and existing ownership, is estimated to have increased to 15 million from the previous 9.9 million to 12 million units in the past two years.
“The backlog now stands at around 15 million [people] awaiting homeownership,” he said on Monday, as quoted by Tempo.co.
Fahri added that the backlog in the renovation program for uninhabitable houses (RTLH) amounted to some 26 million units.
He explained that the population in the country had grown to 289.5 million people. From that figure, the government calculates that there are 91.3 million households in the country, up from around 74 million to 78 million in the past two years.
Fahri also pointed out that while the number of households continued to grow, the average number of people per household had been shrinking. He cited BPS data showing the average household size in the country had dropped from five to three people. He believed this was due to new marriages contributing to the rise of new families.
“As they get married, they face the reality that it’s difficult to own a home,” he added, citing the increasing number of families without a corresponding growth in housing supply as a factor driving the widening housing backlog.
