K2K Aktif Bersama (Active Together)
This factsheet walks us through Think City’s K2K Aktif Bersama (translates to ‘active together’) project, a community well-being initiative anchored on the multiple benefits of walking. This project also included talks and workshops on health and well-being. It was designed to improve physical and mental health and social networks while strengthening community leadership, premised on the belief that healthy bodies, minds, and social networks lay the foundation for more resilient and productive communities.
Rights To The City Inaugural Symposium ‘Together We Can: Improving Liveability in Public Housing’
In December 2021, the inaugural Symposium was held to highlight liveability issues in Malaysia’s Public Housing. This included urban poverty potentially leading to vertical slums and inefficient and ineffective interventions among others. A panel discussion deliberated on the issues identified within the Quality of Life at PPR Systems Map, while touching on possible solutions for further exploration. The full video of the virtual symposium and a summary document can be accessed here.
Suara Penduduk: Isu Berkaitan Pentadbiran dan Pengurusan Perumahan Awam di Malaysia
Laporan ini bertujuan menyelam lebih dalam, mengamati isu-isu berkaitan pentadbiran, pengurusan, serta dinamik komuniti, dengan fokus terhadap perumahan awam kos rendah bertingkat tinggi. Tambahan pula, kandungan kertas ini akan memberi gambaran isu-isu yang memberi kesan ke atas komuniti perumahan awam supaya dasar-dasar dan program-program yang lebih berkesan dapat dihasilkan.
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Badrul Hisham Ismail
IMAN Research
Rights To The City Ecosystem Dialogue | Report & Systems Map
In August 2021, the first Rights To The City (R2C) Ecosystem Dialogue was organised to identify and solve issues that impact public housing communities using the systems practice methodology. The methodology allowed diverse stakeholders to map the existing system while recognising that prevailing issues were interlinked and could only be solved through collaborations. The Dialogue focused on answering the question, “How can we run programmes to improve the quality of life for people living in public housing, specifically the Projek Perumahan Rakyat (PPR)”. 61 participants representing 19 initiatives participated in the Dialogue. The report presents the Dialogue’s outcome in a System Map of Quality of Life at PPR.
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NGO Hub, Think City Sdn Bhd
Key Message from R2C Roundtable #1 – “Will the Projek Perumahan Awam (PPR) become an urban poverty trap?”
On 5 August 2021, the World Bank and Think City organised a Closed-door Roundtable on Public Housing. The Roundtable was anchored on a 20-minute presentation entitled, “Will the Projek Perumahan Rakyat (PPR) become an urban poverty trap?”, which outlined the worsening situation at the PPR (People’s Housing Projects) and explored possible solutions to reverse their declining physical, social, and economic conditions. The presentation was then followed by an hour-long discussion to generate debate and consensus, and identify appropriate policy interventions.
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Think City
Think City, World Bank & Citi Foundation
K2K Idol – A mental health intervention project
This factsheet walks us through the Kita to Kita (K2K) Idol, a mental health intervention project in the form of a singing competition to lift the spirits of the public housing community, build social cohesion and discover talent. It is a multi-dimensional social resilience programme that strengthens community leaders, builds social cohesion and well-being, addresses livelihoods and cost of living with affordable food and transforms the public housing management system.
