After the Second World War, the Malaysian government implemented strict rent control for the economic benefit of tenants. The Chinese landlords were left with no incentive to renovate and have left the buildings--which are falling in to ever greater states of decrepitude--untouched.
原來二次世界大戰後，馬國政府為了保護房客的經濟權益，設立「房租管制」條例，不准租金漲價。華人屋主既然修繕經費無著，便放任日漸殘破的老屋原封不動。