An op-ed piece from Think City MD Hamdan Majeed on the state of mental health among PPR children, its impact on learning, and what needs to be done to tackle the issue.

This document summarises the case study developed to describe the situation and living conditions at the Projek Perumahan Rakyat (PPR) HICOM. The study attempts to outline key issues that impact quality of life within the PPR. The summary document has two parts, a description of the physical, economic, and social conditions of PPR Hicom followed by an assessment analysis of the outlined conditions based on mapping conducted with some recommendations.

This presentation was a part of a roundtable organised by Think City and World Bank in October 2021. It raises concern over the current state of public housing ecosystem which is clouded by social and economic decline, and physical decay. This current state will only get better with an improved standard of living of the public housing community. Without which we are at risk of heading on a downward trend of having vertical slums, economically depressed geographies, poverty traps and so on.