The budget for building affordable housing over the coming year will cover just a fraction of Yangon’s housing requirements, while low-cost housing units remain too expensive for those most in need of accommodation. In the coming fiscal year, the government has been granted K46 billion to build rental housing nationwide, which will cover the cost […]
Budget falls well short of low-cost housing needs
February 16, 2016 by thiha
Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: Budget, Dagon Seikkan Township, Department of Urban and Housing Development, DUHD, Hlaing Tharyar Township, housing requirements, Mahabandoola, mandalay, Myanmar Economic Holdings Company Ltd, Pyinmabin industrial zone, Shwe Lin Pan industrial zone, U Yu Khaing, Yangon, Yangon City Development Committee, YCDC
Space to Live: Rangoon’s Squatters Place Housing Hopes in NLD Govt
February 10, 2016 by thiha
RANGOON — A mother of two children, 34-year-old Thuzar Moe originally hails from the Irrawaddy Delta’s Hinthada Township. She has been living for almost two decades in an industrial zone in Hlaing Tharyar Township on the outskirts of Rangoon, since her family migrated to the area when she was 16 years old. She spoke to […]
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Hundreds of families evicted from Mingalardon
January 28, 2016 by Thiha
Heavy machinery reduced the homes of several hundred families to rubble in Yangon’s Mingalardon township early yesterday, leaving residents in the rain with their meager possessions. The families were designated as squatters on the 560 acres of land leased to military-owned Myanmar Economic Holdings Company Ltd (MEHC). Nearly 500 houses had been built on the […]
