Chow Kon Yeow says PPR units, offered for a monthly rental of RM124, are still needed by those unable to buy homes. FMTNews
Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow says PPR units ought to be maintained so that the poor can rent them.
Chow said a letter sent to him last month by Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin stated that PPR units will be discontinued and replaced with “Projek Perumahan Malaysia” . “The minister sent me this reply when I asked her when more PPR units were going to be built in Penang. The housing and local government ministry had said there are 86,547 PPR units throughout the country. In Penang, there are 999 units.
Jagdeep said the RM90,000 starting price for the rebranded PPR scheme, the PPM, was higher than the RM42,000 price set for low-cost homes and RM72,500 price set for low-medium cost flats by the Penang government.
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