Report to the Regional Seminar on Cooperative Housing, Malaysia 1964

Abstract

The Education Centre of the ICA Regional Office for South-East Asia, in collaboration with the Federation of Cooperative Housing Societies of Malaya and the Cooperative Union of Malaya, organised in November December 1964 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, a Regional Seminar on Coop erative Housing. In all 17 Cooperators from Ceylon, India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand participated in the Seminar. The UN Economic Commission for Asia and the Far-East and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions also sent observers to it. The Seminar also had the benefit of three resource persons from Kooperativa Forbundet (Swedish Cooperative Union & Wholesale Society) and HSB (National Association of Tenants’ Savings and Building Societies), Sweden. In view of the lack of literature on cooperative housing and the im portance of the subject, I am happy to present the report of the Seminar in a printed form. The report is based on the background documentation and lectures given at the Seminar and takes into account the discussions and the major recommendations arrived at at Kuala Lumpur. We in the ICA consider the document important enough to be brought before a large audience; however, the Alliance does not necessarily share all the opinions expressed in the report