This research uses a participatory action methodology which is divided into 3 phases: meanings analysis significance and housing problems of low-income people. Development stage of local community cooperation activities including the system synthesis and mechanism of cooperation of local communities towards housing security use in-depth interviews group chat workshop lesson learned together with observation and field notes. The target groups are members and the committee of Baan Mankong Tha Makham community leader the network development partner’s representatives and relevant officers. This focuses on qualitative data collecting which uses content analysis and summarization. The study found that: for the meaning the importance and the housing problems of low-income people the following are considered: (1) Meaning and importance of the word Nice city and Tha Makham Model. It consists of three dimensions: dimension of residence dimension of happiness and dimension of quality of life. (2) housing Problems of low-income people such as urban problems residence condition problems the problem of inequality and problems of accessing capital. Most of people are low-income and disadvantaged who live in urban areas. Some live with relatives or in a rented house on the land of Royal Property land of a temple and land of State Railway of Thailand. Some don’t have any land or residence of their own. Some were expelled and their houses were dismantled from the area. The system and mechanism of cooperation of local communities towards housing security has four characteristics as follows: (1) People system including members committee as well as committees that look after and manage various funds in Baan Mankong project. 2) The organizational system i.e. the local government organization and related agencies (3) Information system i.e. information and various activities related to the development of Baan Mankong project. 4) Capital system consists of monetary capital or budget such as fund credit community welfare and social capital. These are the value of coexistence support sacrifice and sharing including social relations that requires 3 main thinking bases: (1) thinking principles e.g. living according to the concept of sufficiency economy and self-reliance (2) principles namely Baan Mankong principle saving principle cooperative principle house construction principles and development principle towards sustainability and (3) doing principles refer to the participation on thinking participating doing developing and taking the benefits. .

This research aims to develop the coconut coir ceiling board mixed with natural latex. The 6 ratios of gypsum plaster: coconut coir: sodium silicate: natural rubber: tap water are equal to 1: 0.15: 0.03: 0.00: 1 1: 0.15: 0.03: 0.01: 1 1: 0.15: 0.03: 0.02: 1 1: 0.15: 0.03: 0.03: 1 1: 0.15: 0.03: 0.04: 1 and 1: 0.15: 0.03: 0.05: 1 by weight. The ceiling boards were produced by casting in normal temperature (30 – 35 degree of Celsius). The properties testing of coconut coir ceiling board mixed with natural latex followed the TIS 219-2009 standard (gypsum plasterboard) including: breaking load nail pull resistance deflection water absorption density thermal conductivity coefficient and real usage. From the results 1: 0.15: 0.03: 0.03: 1 ratio is the most suitable ratio of coconut coir ceiling board mixed with natural latex. This developed ceiling boards can reduce the quantity of coconut coir waste and get the good thermal insulation ceiling board products.

This research aims to develop the ceiling board mixed with coconut coir. The 5 ratios of gypsum plaster: coconut coir: sodium silicate: tap water are equal to 1 : 0 : 1: 0.03 1: 100: 1: 0.03 1: 150: 1: 0.03 1: 200: 1: 0.03 1: 250: 1: 0.03 และ 1: 300: 1: 0.03 by weight. The ceiling boards were produced by casting in normal temperature (30 – 35 degree of Celsius). The properties testing of ceiling board mixed with coconut coir followed the TIS 219-2009 standard (gypsum plasterboard) including: breaking load nail pull resistance deflection water absorption density and thermal conductivity coefficient. From the results 1 : 1 5 0 : 1: 0.03 is the most suitable ratio of ceiling board mixed with coconut coir. This developed ceiling boards can reduce the quantity of coconut coir waste and get the good thermal insulation ceiling board products

This research aims to study the using oil palm fiber to develop ceiling board product. The mixture ratios of Gypsum plaster: oil palm fiber: tap water: catalyst are 1 : 0.15 : 1: 0.03 1 : 0.20 : 1: 0.03 1 : 0.25 : 1: 0.03 1 : 0.30: 1: 0.03 and 1 : 0.35 : 1: 0.03 by weight. The ceiling board samples are cast in 30 x 30 x 1 centimeter in dimension. The ceiling board sample testing follows the TIS 219-2552. The results show that the longitudinal and lateral breaking load Nail pull resistance density and thermal conductivity of ceiling board with high quantity of oil palm fiber are lower than ceiling board with low quantity of oil palm fiber while that the deflection and water absorption of ceiling board with high quantity of oil palm fiber are higher. However all of oil palm fiber samples with lower than 0.2 of ratio can pass the standard.

This research aims to study the using oil palm fiber to develop cement-bonded fiberboard product. The mixture ratios of Portland cement type1: fine sand: oil palm fiber:tap water: catalyst are 1 : 1.95 : 0.05 : 0.40 : 0.03 1 : 1.94 : 0.06 : 0.40 : 0.03 1 : 1.93 : 0.07 : 0.40 : 0.03 1 : 1.92 : 0.08 : 0.40 : 0.03 and 1 : 1.91 : 0.09 : 0.40 : 0.03 by weight. The cement-bonded fiberboard samples are cast in 30 x 30 x 1.5 centimeter in dimension. The cement-bonded fiberboard sample testing follows the TIS 878-2537. The results show that the density thermal conductivity bending strength modulus of elasticity and tension perpendicular to surface of cement-bonded fiberboard with high quantity of oil palm fiber are lower than cement-bonded fiberboard with low quantity of oil palm fiber while that the water absorption and swelling in water of cement-bonded fiberboard with high quantity of oil palm fiber are higher. However all of oil palm fiber samples with lower than 0.06 of ratio can pass the standard.