Jakarta – The General Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) Ministry, through the Public Works and Public Real Estate Infrastructure Funding (DJPI) Directorate General, is targeting to launch the Indonesia Green Affordable Housing Program (IGAHP) for low-income people in 2024.
” We hope we can introduce the IGAHP in 2024,” director general of public works and public housing infrastructure financing at the ministry, Herry Trisaputra Zuna, notified in Jakarta on Tuesday.
He stated that the directorate general has actually started the IGAHP to change the housing ecosystem and achieve the net-zero emission and environment modification targets.
According to Zuna, IGAHP is a platform created by the Ministry of PUPR, which focuses on offering green and budget-friendly real estate to low-income people (MBR).
” This can likewise show that budget friendly real estate can adopt eco-friendly and green real estate. We hope medium and high-end housing can follow the pattern of eco-friendly real estate,” he included.
IGAHP is a transitional step towards green housing that seeks to offer budget friendly housing either through the building and construction of new homes or house remodellings by applying green structure principles, Zuna informed.
IGAHP covers adaptation, mitigation, certification, as well as green housing funding that can help Indonesia accomplish its target of net-zero emissions in the housing sector by2050 He said that the program is being performed with stakeholders in the housing finance sector.
The program also aims to increase the quality and amount of economical housing for MBR by embracing low-carbon and sustainable technologies in the development of the real estate sector with the assistance of eco-friendly style and building, he included.
It is hoped that the IGAHP program can conserve a minimum of 20 percent of water, conserve a minimum of 20 percent of energy, and decrease the greenhouse result by 29 percent, he said.
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