Sabah to carry out legalisation process of PPR units under Housing and Urban Development Board

• To ensure that only those eligible and in need get to stay in the PPR units.

KOTA KINABALU (June 28): The Sabah Local Government and Housing Ministry and the Housing and Urban Development Board (LPPB) will carry out a legalisation process of People’s Housing Programme (PPR) units to verify the eligibility status of their tenants.

Sabah Deputy Chief Minister II Datuk Dr Joachim Gunsalam said the move to be implemented for PPR under the LPPB, was to ensure that only those eligible and in need get to stay in the PPR units.

The State Local Government and Housing Minister said the move was also to prevent the tenants from profiting from the rental of their PPR units, such as sub-letting their units,” he said in a statement on Wednesday (June 28).

He added that the legalisation process was following the recent LPPB circular, instructing tenants who have been renting for over 10 years to vacate their PPR units.

However, Joachim explained that the instruction to vacate the PPR units was only applicable to tenants who are no longer eligible to continue staying there.

He said some of the reasons the tenants can lose their eligibility to continue staying in the PPR units include sub-letting their units, having a monthly income of over RM3,000, having their own homes, turning their unit into a homestay, or owing arrears.

“For tenants who are still eligible and want to continue renting even after the 10-year period, it can be considered for an extension by LPPB, with the approval of the Minister of Local Government and Housing,” he said.

Joachim said his ministry and the LPPB will use the suggestion by Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor to allocate part of the PPR units managed by the LPPB to new graduates, as transit homes for them.