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GEORGE TOWN (Dec 17): The state government yesterday said it was ready to take over the list of PR1MA (Perumahan Rakyat 1Malaysia) applicants in Penang, if PR1MA Corporation was willing to share the list.
State housing exco Jagdeep Singh Deo (pictured) said the state housing department would consider the "disappointed" candidates’ applications for an affordable home in Penang.
He said Putrajaya and PR1MA Corporation could pass to the state the list of PR1MA housing applicants in Penang so that they would not be let down by PR1MA Corp’s failure to build affordable homes in Penang as promised.
"The Penang government is open to taking over PR1MA's list of applicants for consideration so that they can realise their dreams and aspirations. We won’t disappoint them the way PR1MA has," he told a press conference in Komtar yesterday.
Jagdeep was referring to the promised federal PR1MA affordable housing scheme in Penang, which had yet to materialise.
He said it was announced that PR1MA Corp would build 2,100 affordable homes in Bukit Gelugor and 9,564 in Balik Pulau.
He said during the National Housing Council meeting on Aug 21, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had announced that out of 153,807 PR1MA affordable housing units approved as of July, Penang was allocated 24,923, the highest number of units.
"But until today, the state has yet to receive a single application from PR1MA to build such a project," he said.
Jagdeep said according to recent reports, some 1.2 million people in the country had applied for the PR1MA affordable housing scheme.
"What is to become of these applicants?
"We don't know how many of these are in Penang, but we hope they will share the list so that we can vet and consider the applicants for the state’s affordable housing projects," he said.
He said the Penang government had 12 housing projects in the pipeline with a total of 22,512 low-cost, low-medium cost and affordable housing units.
Under the state Public Private Partnership initiative, there are 16 developers with pending applications to build 9,047 units of affordable homes. -- The Malaysian Insider
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