Balanced Housing Development in Yogyakarta, Indonesia-Policy, Reality, and Problem

Abstrac t — The planned housing has been phenomenally developed in some big cities in Indonesia, included Yogyakarta. The housing has been built in various models as government ’ s policy for getting equity in diversity and for reducing housing backlog in Indonesia. The housing policy that is relevant to the problem is Balanced Housing Development. This policy has been undergone adjustments in several decades which in principle aim to alleviate the Developers in implementing this policy. The policy began with the establishment of a balance of luxury quality housing development: moderate; simple = 1: 3: 6 to 1: 2: 3. The developers still had difficulty for implementing. The fact shows that the implementation of balanced residential based housing development in Yogyakarta was still very low, which is only 1,22%. By using the data research group of “ Income Generation in The Planned Housing Development ” funded by High Directorate Education National Department, and some actually relevant articles, this paper discusses of what is the problem of the low achievement of the balanced ratio. Some observers of housing development and housing developers have discussed a lot of the lack of achievement on the policy. But the fundamental causes of the lack of achievement have not been studied in depth. On this basis, this paper aims to examine the causes of the low achievement and what are the solution strategies. Conclusion indicates that there are five obstacles for implementing the regulations: land prices, housing regulations, housing development authorities, community conditions, and developers as housing businesses. The solution strategies may be to evaluate the housing standards, applying progressive concepts to land ownership, determining the allocation of land for MBR in the land use regulation, and to incentives and disincentives for housing developers.