Vertical Living Opportunities and Challenges for Low-income People in Southeast Asia Case of Indonesia

With limited land available, it is a fact and unavoidable that the house should be built vertically. When countries in Europe have started to organize it long enough since the end of the World War II in the 1950s, many states in Southeast Asia can be said to be relatively newer in developing this vertical residential building. Indonesia, for example, began to construct since the 1970s. However, it was in the 1990s that this type of housing was largely built and characterized by a type of luxurious apartment construction that was delivered mainly to the group of people who can afford. The vertical housing for low-income people in Indonesia were just started to be built since the mid-1990s in several locations in Jakarta, in the form of a walk-up flat housing. Nationally, these new housing flats were just constructed since the mid-2000s. This paper is proposed to conduct evaluation of the delivery of flats during these 10 yr period and its relevance to vertical living opportunities and challenges for low-income people in Indonesia. The question is whether the offered vertical housing, particularly walk-up flats, can be accepted by the community and what the problems are faced. The mixed method was used by conducting surveys in several locations of walk-up flats housing in Yogyakarta Special Province. The result of this study is that despite its imperfect situation, in general the flats are responded relatively well by the low-income group.