News about Housing and Local Government Ministry

KUALA LUMPUR (May 27): Lawyer Syazlin Mansor was removed from representing the Housing and Local Government Ministry in the inquest into the death of fireman Muhammad Adib Mohd Kassim for fear of conflict of interest.

  CHUKAI (May 21): The Housing and Local Government Ministry completed 32,951 units of affordable homes in the first three months of this year.

  SHAH ALAM (May 11): Housing and Local Government Ministry (KPKT) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with eight companies from China, for future potential foreign direct investment and technology knowledge transfer towards Malaysia’s affordable housing development.

  KUALA LUMPUR (April 26): The Association of Valuers, Property Managers, Estate Agents and Property Consultants in the Private Sector Malaysia (PEPS) is calling upon the Housing and Local Government Ministry to change primary housing market advertising regulations so that housing prices in advertisements are clearer in nature.

KUANTAN (April 22): The government, through the Housing and Local Government Ministry, has approved an additional allocation of RM4.

  PETALING JAYA (April 20): Housing and Local Government (KPKT) Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin praised the doubling of affordable housing under the revived Bandar Malaysia project, reports Malaysiakini.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 11): The Housing and Local Government Ministry (KPKT) is drawing up the Consumer Credit Act which would ensure consumers get loans from syariah-compliant loan companies, the Dewan Rakyat was told today.

  KUALA LUMPUR (April 2): Malaysia is currently studying the Residential Tenancy Act to provide new laws governing the country's housing rental market, said the Housing and Local Government Ministry today, adding the new act will take two years to develop.

  In attempting to rejuvenate an aging town or building, we could always demolish and rebuild from scratch.

  PETALING JAYA (March 12): The Housing and Local Government Ministry (KPKT) has reminded home owners and tenants of People’s Housing Programme (PPR) schemes that they are breaking the law if they rent out their units.