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View all search resultsFahri pointed to several hurdles, including land issues and lack of demand, hampering rollout of the funding commitments made by foreign entities that the government had secured over the past months, as quoted from Bisnis.com.
In a meeting with House Commission V on Tuesday, representatives of two property developers associations put forth an idea to offer a rent-to-own scheme to ease access to home financing for informal workers who might otherwise fall through the cracks of creditworthiness criteria and bank scoring models.
Experts are wary that the new regulation will put more pressure on already struggling low-income communities, as they will have to compete with individuals in the new higher-income brackets to secure affordable housing.
The government has launched a subsidized housing program for journalists, aiming to allocate 1,000 units this year as part of its effort to ensure access to affordable housing for media workers across the country.
The housing ministry has introduced a new regulation to be issued on April 21 that expands the maximum income threshold for individuals and couples eligible for the government's subsidized homeownership program, so residents in major cities also have access to affordable homes.
Real Estate Indonesia (REI) central board chairman Joko Suranto says a lack of details on the program run by the Public Housing and Settlements Ministry is causing instability in the country’s property market.
REI has asked the government to increase the subsidized housing for this year, given that the market had absorbed 48 percent of the originally allotted 166,000 units to date and supply would likely run out by September.
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