Malaysian housing project stresses jobs, food to tackle slums

Oslo

A MALAYSIAN low-cost housing project could lift some of the world's 860 million slum-dwellers from poverty by helping to secure jobs and food as well as shelter, Malaysia's IRIS Corp Bhd said on Thursday.

In a pilot scheme, the company built a four-storey building of 32 apartments, put together like huge Lego building blocks, for US$1.5 million including the cost of buying land in Pahang, Malaysia, it said.