Myanmar: Yangon's Urban-Development Plans Are Self-Defeating, Critics Say

Sep 22, 2014 | Eleven Myanmar
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The government’s efforts to build low-cost housing for them in Yangon have been self-defeating, urban planning experts say. The projects have merely driven up the cost of land and pushed rents beyond the reach of many families who had been driven to the city’s periphery where rents had been cheaper till the government announced a string of low-cost housing projects that have merely driven up the cost of land.