ANALYTICAL SURVEY

FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING

2016
 introduction

The survey was conducted by the students of Bachelors of Arts

in Architectural Design in Faculty of engineering Technology.
It is conducted to collect information needed for the project
(Affordable Housing) in Architectural Design Project III.

Questioners were handed to 180 individuals above 16 years from

different islands of Maldives. Among these 89 people were male
and 91 were female. From this 180 individual 76 are originally
from Male’ city while 104 were from different islands of Maldives.
Only 13 people from this lives in Islands while the other 168 lives
in Male’ city. Most of these people does not know the exact value
of a land in Male’ city. Some thinks it is very cheap while others
think it is quite expensive.
 MALE
70
FEMALE
60

50

40

30

20

10

0
16 - 20 21 - 24 25 - 34 35 - 44 45 - 54 55 - 64 65 +
people
 extended
NUCLEAR
alone

CURRENTLY LIVING

0% 10 % 20 % 30 % 40 % 50 % 60 % 70 % 80 % 90 % 100 %

FUTURE CONSIDERATION

0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180

 LIVING CONSIDERATION

From the total of 180, 83 people are living with their extended
family while other 84 are living with their nuclear and only 13
people are living alone. Since most of the people who participated
in the survey are from outside male’ city they either live with their
extended or nuclear family in a shared apartment or a house.

When an overall chart for how people would like to live in the
future is taken it shows that many would like to live alone or with
their nuclear family and very few would like to live with their
extended family.
 EXTENDED
NUCLEAR
ALONE
80% (LIVING WITH EXTENDED FAMILy)

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35

10% (LIVING WITH NUCLEAR FAMILy)

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45

10% (LIVING ALONE)

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
 CONSIDER LIVING WITH

22 people out of 83 who currently lives with their extended family consider
living with their extended family in the future too, while 24 consider living
with their nuclear family and the rest 37 would like to live alone.

From 84 individual who said they are living with their nuclear family, 5 says
they want to live with their extended family in the future. 45 people like to
live with their nuclear family while the rest 34 would like to live alone.

From the people who currently lives alone no one would like to live with
their extended family. Among them 8 would like to live alone in the future
too while the other 5 would like to live with their nuclear family.
PEOPLE WHO OWN HOUSE PEOPLE WHO DON OWN HOUSE

30 % 70 %
 OWNERSHIP

From the 180 individual who participated in the survey only 31 people own
a house/apartment. The rest 149 people are who does not own a house/
apartment. The reason for this could be that most of the people who partici-
pated in the survey are under 35 years.
 OWN A LAND

60 %

HAVE A PLACE GIVEN FOR RENT

10 %
1 ROOM APARTMENT
100k - 200k
200k - 300k
300k - 400k
400k - 500k

2 ROOM APARTMENT
200k - 300k
300k - 400k
500k - 600k
600k - 700k

3 ROOM APARTMENT
200k - 400k
400k - 600k
600k - 800k
800k - 1m

4 ROOM APARTMENT
500k - 700k
700k - 900k
900k - 1.3m
1.3m - 1.5m
 SUITABLE AMOUNT FOR
FULL PAYMENTS

When people were asked what method of payment is most suitable

for them, most of the people preferred installment method over full
payment method. There are some people who prefers to pay the full
amount at once. They believe that if the money is paid at once then
they would not have to worry about the payment anymore and they
would own the apartment.
 RENT DOWNPAYMENT
1 ROOM APARTMENT
2000 - 2500 Below 50k
1000 - 2000 50k - 100k
500 - 1000 100k - 150k
Below 500 150k - 250k

2 ROOM APARTMENT
3500 - 4500 Below 100k
2500 - 3500 100k - 200k
1500 - 2500 200k - 300k
Below 1500 300k - 350k

3 ROOM APARTMENT
5000 - 6000 Below 150k
4000 - 5000 150k - 200k
3000 - 4000 200k - 300k
Below 3000 300k - 400k

4 ROOM APARTMENT
7000 - 8000 Below 250k
6000 - 7000 250k - 350k
5000 - 6000 350k - 500k
Below 5000 500k - 700k
 SUITABLE AMOUNT FOR
INSTALLMENTS

As many people preferred the installment method, according to these

people they say that it would be more affordable for most of the people
to pay a down payment and pay the rest in a given time than doing the
full payment at once. Most of the people even preferred to pay a lower
price for down payment than a higher price.
 housing schemes
23 % affordablity

controlling rent 34 %

consider buying
a land 58 %

houses are
15 % affordable
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