Major operation soon to identify PPR owners who rent out their units, minister warns

• Housing and Local Government Minister Nga Kor Ming “I hope all PPR owners adhere to the contract conditions because we have found many owners who receive PPR homes and then rent them out to foreign workers, including undocumented ones. We will not compromise on this.”

IPOH (June 6): The Housing and Local Government Ministry (KPKT) will soon launch a large-scale operation to identify owners of People's Housing Project (PPR) units who are renting out their homes to others, including foreign nationals.

Housing and Local Government Minister Nga Kor Ming (picturewd) issued this warning, saying that KPKT will utilise existing laws to address this issue.

He said the operation aims to ensure PPR owners do not break the law, as these housing projects have been heavily subsidised by the government.

“Our construction cost reaches RM300,000, but buyers only pay RM45,000 initially. In other words, the government subsidises each housing unit by over RM240,000.

“When they apply, their reason is that they don’t have a house, but once they get one, they don’t live in it and rent it out to others,” he told a press conference after officiating the opening of Jalan Utama in Bandar Seri Botani near here Thursday.

Nga said KPKT has also discovered that many PPR owners have violated their contracts by renting out their homes to foreign workers, including undocumented migrants.

“I hope all PPR owners adhere to the contract conditions because we have found many owners who receive PPR homes and then rent them out to foreign workers, including undocumented ones. We will not compromise on this,” he said, adding that KPKT has already identified several target sites.

Meanwhile, Nga said KPKT will consider installing closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras in PPR lifts nationwide to tackle vandalism issues such as damage to, as well as littering and urinating in lifts.

“Don’t force me to install CCTV in lifts. This happened in the 1970s in Singapore when the late Lee Kuan Yew (former Prime Minister of Singapore) discovered that people were urinating in lifts.

“So the Singapore government was forced to install CCTVs inside the lift, (and) we believe that Malaysians deserve nothing less. We should not be like that. We must be civilised and always make sure civil mindedness must be there,” he said.

Nga also urged PPR residents to pay their maintenance fees to ensure that all damaged facilities can be repaired.

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