Housing minister: PPR rules must be strictly applied
Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin says firm enforcement is needed to ensure adherence to laws and regulations governing people’s housing project units. — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
“When enforcement action was not taken, then the people will not know that there are laws and guidelines that they must adhere to,” she said in a press conference here after attending a World Women’s Day event. She said she has spoken with the state local government and housing development committee chairman Jagdeep Singh Deo on the Taman Manggis eviction issues, during which she expressed support for the state’s action in Taman Manggis.
“The state can look at how to facilitate and help them if they really have nowhere else to go, there is no need for them to be sleeping there,” she said referring to eight families who camped on the ground floor of Komtar since the eviction on Wednesday.While she acknowledged that the evicted group did not have the law on their side, Zuraida said the state should still be civil.
She said the state currently also offered very affordable rent-to-own schemes to the lower income group.
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