Department of Human Settlement

Joint Approach Coming for Low-Cost Housing Projects

January 17, 2018 by thiha

Government will enter into join ventures with businesses to stimulate low-cost housing projects on public land, according to the Department of Human settlement and Housing Development. In an effort to stimulate construction of needed low-cost housing, public-private developments will be allowed on government land, the department said. Land will be provided by the government and […]

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Nowhere to Go For Yangon Squatters Driven Out for New ‘Eco Green City’

June 17, 2017 by thiha

RANGOON – A mother of two small children, Daw Tin Mar Win gazed on as a group of men demolished her bamboo thatched house with chainsaws, and cut down the mango trees that had surrounded it. On Monday, nearly 400 tenants saw their shelters destroyed by authorities who deemed them “landlord squatters”—local property owners who unlawfully—and often […]

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‘Trespassers’ pushed out of homes by affordable housing project

August 2, 2016 by thiha

They have been dubbed the trespassers. The 200 or so families who moved to Ingalaing when it was only an underdeveloped, unutilised field on the fringes of Yangon have now found themselves in the middle of a turf war. As the city expands, developers are eating up the no-longer-so-far-flung plots in Hlaing Tharyar, and attempting […]

Filed Under: Latest News, Property Report Tagged With: Daw Hla Kyi, Department of Human Settlement, Department of Urban Housing Development, DHSHD, Hlaing Tharyar, Housing Development, Kyan Sit Min, Kyan Sit Min Housing Estate, Mahabandoola project, MInistry of Construction, Order Restoration Council, South Dagon Township, The Kyan Sit Min Housing Estate, U Min Aung Aye, U Min Htein, U Mya Maung, Yangon, Yangon Region Chief Minister U Phyo Min Thein, Yangon State Law

Farmers fence off government land

June 17, 2016 by thiha

Farmers who have fenced off government-owned land in Yangon Region which they say rightfully belongs to them may soon be facing legal action, according to the regional Department of Human Settlement and Housing Development. On empty plots of land in Yangon that the government says it owns but that it does not use, farmers and […]