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National strategic investment fund Khazanah has urged the government to discontinue subsidised housing programmes for high-income earners.<\/p>\n

According to Suraya Ismail, director of research at Khazanah Research Institute, housing assistance programmes have now reached the top 20% income-earners of households.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s too much burden on the government, fiscally,\u201d Suraya told reporters at a forum on low-cost housing organised by Khazanah.<\/p>\n

According to Statistics Department data, the income threshold for households are: bottom 40% (B40) below RM3,860; middle 40% (M40), RM3,861-RM8,319; and top 20% (T20), RM8,320 and above.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn no other country does the top 20% get assistance from the government. We shouldn\u2019t do that,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s called affordable for a reason, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,216,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-loan","category-news-updates","category-properties"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPutrajaya Must Stop Subsiding Housing For Top 20%<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It\u2019s not sustainable, according to strategic investment fund Khazanah, after the think tank found that subsidies have been weighing down the government.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/stop-t20-housing-subsidy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Putrajaya Must Stop Subsiding Housing For Top 20%\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It\u2019s not sustainable, according to strategic investment fund Khazanah, after the think tank found that subsidies have been weighing down the government.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/stop-t20-housing-subsidy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"iMoney Malaysia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-08-25T08:19:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Emmanuel Surendra\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Emmanuel Surendra\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/stop-t20-housing-subsidy\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/stop-t20-housing-subsidy\",\"name\":\"Putrajaya Must Stop Subsiding Housing For Top 20%\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-08-25T08:19:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-08-25T08:19:18+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/#\/schema\/person\/a7c6c5ecf3ba99234373c75acdff7fa4\"},\"description\":\"It\u2019s not sustainable, according to strategic investment fund Khazanah, after the think tank found that subsidies have been weighing down the government.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/stop-t20-housing-subsidy#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/stop-t20-housing-subsidy\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/stop-t20-housing-subsidy#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"News Updates\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/category\/news-updates\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Khazanah: Stop Subsidising Housing For T20\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/\",\"name\":\"iMoney Malaysia\",\"description\":\"Everything you need to know about improving your personal finances.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/#\/schema\/person\/a7c6c5ecf3ba99234373c75acdff7fa4\",\"name\":\"Emmanuel Surendra\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3e6d0ef9a974611998508639c5dedc59?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3e6d0ef9a974611998508639c5dedc59?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Emmanuel Surendra\"},\"description\":\"Emmanuel writes to live. 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