TY  - JOUR
T1  - Designing Basic Housing Floor Plan to Solve House Pricing Issue for Middle-Income Citizens
AU - Tawil, N.M. AU - Musa, A.R. AU - Che-Ani, A.I. AU - Basri, H. AU - Mokhtar, M.A. 
JO  - International Business Management
VL  - 7
IS  - 3
SP  - 208
EP  - 213
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1993-5250
DO  - ibm.2013.208.213
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2013.208.213
KW  - House price
KW  -middle income citizen
KW  -besic home design
KW  -residential homes
KW  -kitchen
AB  - The current price increase for residential homes has assumed 
  a place as a serious issue in recent years. House prices have escalated for 
  the past 15 years and the increase has been drastic for a lot of urban areas 
  in several states. The issue of affordability of houses for low-income earners 
  are often has been discussed and attention by the relevant parties. But, the 
  problem of the ability to own a home that experienced more critical are for 
  the middle-income. Due requirement for buying house for the middle-income group 
  are limited because they unqualified to buy a low-cost houses but unfortunately 
  the price of medium cost houses currently skyrocketing high. Among the factors 
  for this increase which can be resolved and examined in this study would be 
  the design intricacies and the price increase of construction materials. Therefore, 
  this study will introduce the approach of basic house concept design as an avenue 
  to overcome any issues concerning price increase. This concept is adopted as 
  a step towards reducing the market price for houses, by reducing the use of 
  interior construction materials but at the same time allowing the owners to 
  add some space in the future, according to their needs. Space addition can be 
  done horizontally and vertically whereby space or room addition can be carried 
  out by building one’s own interior walls and adding another storey to the house, 
  without affecting the house’s original structure. The basic housing design approach 
  is a strategy in providing a landed affordable housing for middle income citizens 
  where this concept offer a home with a bedroom, kitchen, toilet and living.
ER  -