Collaborative Governance and Housing for Low-Income Communities

The primary purpose of this paper is to determine why government cooperative efforts to build houses for low-income families have only been met with limited success. The research design and methodology in this study was done by investigating the cooperation in previous schemes using the theory of collaborative governance and postpositivist methods and emphasize the importance of collaborative governance in determining the success of future programs. Data were collected through interviews and analyses of state documents. The findings of this research found that The One Million Houses Program created by the government of the Republic of Indonesia didn't yield optimal results, so the government developed cooperation schemes with business entities (KPBU) that seem so similar to Public-Private Partnership yet claimed to be more collaborative, to provide houses for the low-income community. Rental apartments were the first product of this new scheme. In this study, we found a lack of inclusiveness and transparency in this program, which indicates that there was no collaboration in the project. The results suggest that the application of collaborative governance is vital for the success of the new scheme for developing houses for low-income families in Indonesia, yet it hasn't been applied while the need for a house is kept rising now and then.