GENERATING INCOME BY UTILIZING INCOME GENERATION SPACE (IGS) FOR SUSTAINABLE SAVINGS MANAGEMENT

摘要

In order to cope with poverty issue, IGS has played a significant role as a place to support the income generating activities. By utilizing IGS, dwellers are able to create income and use the income for monthly expenditures. Data has reflected that dwellers has to pay as usual for fundamental facilities cost, pay for their habitat by installments. More than half of the households have to organize to pay for their children expenditure, and a few can be found to pay for the elderly as extended families in urban low-income environment. The IGS has potential to support in generating income for its users. If dwellers could manage to pay lesser, particularly on the miscellaneous cost, as well as after the habitat payment can be accomplished, dwellers can manage to have more monthly savings. It is therefore imperative to make an insight consideration on IGS strategy integrated with the effective sustainable savings management for the sustainability of low-income habitat enhancement.