Kuala Lumpur is divided into 11 parliamentary constituencies. The Projek Perumahan Rakyat (PPR) and Perumahan Awam (PA) under the Kuala Lumpur City Council (DBKL) provide planned flat houses for the urban poor who live in the city of Kuala Lumpur as a measure of preventing squatter areas within the city. This was a project headed by the National Housing Department, Ministry of Housing and Local Government to provide decent housing to low-income earners and it was built according to the specifications of low-cost housing as specified in the National Housing Standard for Low-Cost Housing Flats (CIS3:2005). PPR houses rental target group is the low-income group and people who formerly lived in squatter areas with rent as low as RM 124.00 per month. The terms of the application for the PPR units are as follows: a) Malaysian married couple with accumulated income of the spouses must not exceed RM3,000.00. b) Live or work in the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur. c) No houses or land within 35km of the city center registered with the Department of Housing Management and Community Development


Malaysia conducted data collection at three parliamentary constituencies of Kuala Lumpur (DBKL), which are Batu, Bandar Tun Razak and Kepong based on the top 3 highest urban poor population in these parliaments in Kuala Lumpur.