RESEARCH ARTICLE XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 1 Copyright © 2016 American Scientific Publishers Advanced Science Letters All rights reserved Vol. XXXXXXXXX Printed in the United States of America Young Professional's Well Being through Housing Affordability and Preferences in Kuala Lumpur. Nor Suzylah Sohaimi 1 , Alias Abdullah 2 , Syafiee Shuid³, 1 , 2 , ³ International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia 60173112351, suzysohaimi@gmail.com 1 Abstract The study on young generation's housing affordability has become pervasive nowadays since they are receiving devastating consequences of affordability issues, especially in the well-being aspect. In a broad-spectrum, the housing affordability's issue is interrelated to the young professional's well-being. However, this particular study deliberated on young professional's housing preference in affordability context. Thus, this study taking into account some attributes to represent the housing preference criteria. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to identify housing preferences for a specific group of young professional in Kuala Lumpur. The young professional group can be distinguished from other young groups, by the different terminologies used for depicting the young people, such as Gen Y, Young Working Household and others. Young professional has different characteristics which make them unique compared to other groups, and this also associates decision on housing choice. A descriptive analysis has been applied with 50 respondents. The study found that security criteria as a priority in housing preferences and followed by having Wi-Fi. Keywords: Housing Preferences, Affordability, Young professional, Well-Being 1. INTRODUCTION A house is beyond than shelter and it has vigorous role plays in the design of psychological significance and economic well-being and individual wealth 1 . Equally important, a house is expected to be seen as creating well- being which it reflected the quality of life and for this reason a house evolved from a shelter to a preference. Young generation’s housing affordability became precarious circumstances, and this is equivalent to the Youth Access 2 views that young people struggle over housing affordability issues, as they are more likely triple to experiences rented housing and homeless issue compared to other groups. This study focus on young professional’s affordability and preferences and this makes the study unique since focused on a specific group in urban areas. In dealing with housing preferences, young professional also experience the housing affordability limitation. Generally, as the professional group, they expected to earn a decent salary as they are graduated from university and these views also often inspire Millennials who are struggling in tertiary education to have a successful academic result and they believe that they deserve to have a bright future which is included to have a good quality of life such as possess a better home for a quality living environment. 2. LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Young Professional Young professional referred as graduates who have a