Author: Tuan Seik Foo
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Diss no. HS-90-01
Year: 1990
Academic Program: Human Settlement (HS)
Type: Thesis (Ph.D.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 1990
Examination Committee: A.T.M. Nurul Amin (Chairperson); Yap Kioe Sheng (Co-Chairperson); Hans Detlef Kammeier, Vithool Jearkjirm, David E. Dowall (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: The objectives of the study were, firstly, to describe the general behavioural characteristics of private developers in Bangkok and their present role in low-cost housing provision. Secondly, it sought to explain why their present role was as such . A third objective was to prescribe policies to improve the ·developer ‘ s role. Finally, the study aimed to generalize its findings for application to developing countries in general. Developer supply of low- cost housing was assumed to be insignificant in terms of output relative to the size of the demand. To explain this, a developer decision- making model was designed . From this model, low-cost housing supply was hypothesized to be hindered by the adverse effect of market and non- market impediments on profits. These impediments were hypothesized to be in the form of unfavourable costs of inputs {land, building materials, infrastructure, finance and labour) and unfavourable overheads accrued to institutional and developer {resource) constraints. They could also be in the form of unfair competition from public sector housing , which affects sales rate, and in the form of constraints to management (e . g. repercussions on the firm’s image and reputation) by being involved in low-cost housing development. Working hypotheses were then formulated to test for the existence of these impediments and their levels of significance . Sub hypotheses were also deduced to test for relationships between these impediments and certain selected developer characteristics (termed ‘strata variables’). These hypotheses and sub hypotheses were to be tested using a 10 percent stratified sample of 100 developers (Group A) who did not undertake low-cost housing development in the 1987- 89 period. The reverse condition viz the absence of impediments was hypothesized to enable low- cost housing development (termed ‘enabling factors’). In similar fashion, hypotheses and sub hypotheses on enabling factors were deduced and were to be tested using a 50 percent
Scholarship Donor(s): Government of Japan
Note: A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Doctor of Technical Science
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