http://www.tianchua.net/en/2006/09/21/kg-chubadak/ la vie existe grace aux choix Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:34:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.tianchua.net/en/2006/09/21/kg-chubadak/#comment-19 taufiq Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:34:10 +0000 http://www.tianchua.net/en/?p=10#comment-19 what about property rights of the middle class? don't they deserve their fair share of urbanization? a small but growing middle class in kl can't afford more affluent neighborhoods such as bangsar or damansara. so we buy in areas such as gombak. because it's near (circa 10-12 km) to the city. places like gombak receive the bad press like being dirty, jammed, lack infra, etc because of this urban poor phenomenon. property values increase slowly in gombak whereas the rest of kl progresses. this highway is the one thing that could change that. it could lift home prices and give paying residents (buyers instead of squatters) a chance at profit. look at pj, bangsar,damansara - all originally old low to middle income estates which have moved on to become high quality places to live at. just because a few hundred families refuse to purchase their residence, a whole tax-paying homeowner middle class can't reap the benefits of urbanization. it's 2006. nothing' free anymore. if i can take a mortgage, why can't they do the same? what about property rights of the middle class? don’t they deserve their fair share of urbanization? a small but growing middle class in kl can’t afford more affluent neighborhoods such as bangsar or damansara. so we buy in areas such as gombak. because it’s near (circa 10-12 km) to the city. places like gombak receive the bad press like being dirty, jammed, lack infra, etc because of this urban poor phenomenon. property values increase slowly in gombak whereas the rest of kl progresses. this highway is the one thing that could change that. it could lift home prices and give paying residents (buyers instead of squatters) a chance at profit. look at pj, bangsar,damansara - all originally old low to middle income estates which have moved on to become high quality places to live at. just because a few hundred families refuse to purchase their residence, a whole tax-paying homeowner middle class can’t reap the benefits of urbanization. it’s 2006. nothing’ free anymore. if i can take a mortgage, why can’t they do the same?

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