On 10 August 2026, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (KPKT) launched the National Housing Policy 2026–2035 (Dasar Rumah Negara, or DRN 2026-2035) — a ten-year framework of 6 focus areas, 17 strategies, and 59 action plans targeting one million affordable homes by 2035 (EdgeProp.my). Buried inside that framework — easy to miss if you're only reading the headline numbers — is a set of commitments that directly reshape what's expected of every JMB and MC in the country.
This isn't a policy about new towers or subsidy schemes. Read past Focus 1 and 2, and DRN 2026-2035 commits the government to building the same kind of centralized, data-driven governance infrastructure that strata communities have been missing for years — and to amending the Strata Management Act 2013 (Act 757) itself to make that governance mandatory.
Action Plan 6.2.3 of the policy, under the strategy "Strengthening monitoring, evaluation, and data-driven housing provision mechanisms," commits KPKT — supported by DOSM, NAPIC, and PLANMalaysia — to develop a Housing Big Data Analytics and Visualisation system (BDA Housing) by 2027. Its stated indicator is explicit: "the formation of an integrated housing information repository through the strengthening of the National Housing Data Bank System (TEDUH)" — TEDUH standing for Transforming and Empowering Data Usage in Housing.
In plain terms: the government is committing, on the record and on a timeline, to coordinating and integrating housing data from multiple agencies into one national repository. Separately, the housing ministry has said the resulting big data system will use artificial intelligence to match housing supply, pricing, and location to actual local demand (Malay Mail).
Strata governance has never been asked to plug into anything like this before.
The policy doesn't stop at data infrastructure. Action Plan 6.4.2, under the strategy "Empowering national strata governance and management," commits KPKT — with JPN, the Attorney General's Chambers, and local Commissioners of Building — to amend the Strata Management Act 2013 (Act 757), with gazettement targeted for 2030. The stated justification is worth reading in full: the amendment exists to "strengthen the legal framework, governance, and management of strata developments," to "clarify the roles, responsibilities, and accountability of stakeholders," to "enhance enforcement and dispute resolution mechanisms," and to ensure strata management is "carried out in a more transparent, effective, and sustainable manner."
Minister Nga Kor Ming has tied this directly to scale: Malaysia's urbanisation rate has grown from 28% in 1970 to roughly 78% today, projected to reach 85% by 2040, with nearly three million strata units now spread across more than 27,000 schemes nationwide (The Star). A framework built for a much smaller, less urbanised country is being rebuilt for the one Malaysia has actually become.
Two further action plans round out the picture: Action Plan 6.4.1 commits COB and JPN to strengthening JMB/MC understanding of strata management through symposiums, courses, and programs from 2027 to 2035, and Action Plan 3.2.1 commits COB and local authorities to a strata management performance evaluation system — tied to maintenance cost and quality — by 2030–2032.
None of this is abstract policy language that stays in Putrajaya. Every one of these action plans eventually reaches individual schemes: as a data standard your records need to meet, as a compliance requirement your committee needs to demonstrate, or as a performance benchmark your maintenance spending gets measured against.
The schemes that will handle 2027 through 2030 comfortably are the ones that already keep centralized, well-governed records today — not the ones that discover in 2029 that their AGM minutes, maintenance history, and financial records are split across three former management agents and a Google Drive nobody has the password to.
This is the premise behind the Central Property Data Hub: a unified, secure repository connecting JMBs, MCs, property managers, and the government bodies they already report to — KPKT, JPN, and local COBs — so a scheme's governance record exists in one place, ready for whatever the amended Act 757 and the strengthening TEDUH system eventually require. The objective is centralization and statutory compliance; any secondary visibility the platform provides is a byproduct of good record-keeping, never the point of the system.
If your committee is already feeling the fragmentation — records split across handovers, filings assembled under deadline pressure, no single place to point an auditor or a new committee member — that's worth addressing before the amendment lands, not after.
Talk to the Agmo Strata team about a walkthrough of the Central Repository Data Hub to see what centralized, compliant record-keeping looks like for a scheme your size. Get in touch: contact@agmostrata.com
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