12.0 HOUSING ISSUE

12.1 Overview by the HPR, Malaysia: A large proportion of the Indians in the urban areas today live in squatter settlements. This is a direct result of the more than 300,000 displaced Indians from plantations. (Centre for Public Policy studies) Having been pushed out of the plantations they arrive in the cities into these squatter settlements. These settlements are located illegally and they run the danger of being demolished as soon as development begins in the area.

The Government supposedly has a low cost housing solution, but woven in with all the other Human Rights issues and the resultant state of the Indian poor most an ill afford these low cost flats even where they are available.