Beneath the Veneer

The rise of Iskandar Malaysia as a regional hub has profoundly altered the domestic landscape, generating a knock-on effect on Johor's housing development, both economically and politically.Housing policy and development in Johor, as illustrated in the formation of Iskandar Malaysia, is riddled with conflict along two dimensions "bumiputra versus non-bumiputra" and "federal government versus state government". The first one is entangled with international real estate development and foreign inve