Aiming for Homes for All

By Andrea Filmer

February 2017 FEATURE
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Both the public and private sectors in Penang are busy building for all classes of people.Childhood best friends Ming and Tan have a lot in common: their ages, careers as bankers and an unfettered love for chocolate.When it comes to housing choices, however, both went in very different directions. Ming, 32 and a mother of one, bought into low-medium cost (LMC) housing several years after she started working in the financial sector. “I was in my mid-twenties, not married and...

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Andrea Filmer

is a freelance journalist who has lived in the US and Australia but, for reasons unknown to herself, finds it impossible to call anywhere but Penang home.

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