Poverty forum: Affordable housing should be seen as human right

Affordable housing should be seen as a human right, stressed the panellists of a forum in conjunction with Gabungan Marhaen movement’s poverty eradication festival, Himpunan Marhaen, yesterday.

The forum, which kicked off the five-day festival, saw Khazanah Research Institute (KRI) research associate Gregory Ho Wai Son discussing the challenges surrounding poverty and affordable housing in Malaysia.

This included lack of...