The third largest island in the world, situated southeast of the Malay Peninsula, Borneo is part of Malaysia and Indonesia, and hungry for modular housing to ease the shortage of affordable homes. Chinese-built modular homes have been exported to 80 countries, but transportation would make the prices too high to address the housing needs of squatters, rural-urban migrants and graduates in this nation, according to theborneopost.com. Housing Development Corporation (HDC) chairman Datuk Dr Abang Abdul Rauf Zain said, after visiting a Chinese modular home factory, “We are very concerned with the increasing cost of low cost housing. We need cheap but quality houses, so we need to learn from other people who have been able to provide the best housing.” MHProNews has learned as a result, Chinese investors will be visiting the state to consider housing and other economic possibilities. ##

(Photo credit: Liu Lubin/designboom.com–mother nature network–Chinese modular home)