KUALA LUMPUR: Nearly 20% of occupants of City Hall’s (DBKL) public housing (PA) and people’s housing projects (PPR) own luxury cars, have other houses or earn high incomes, thus being ineligibie to stay in these homes.
Deputy Federal Territories Minister Edmund Santhara Kumar said the figure was obtained through a census and audit conducted by DBKL from time to time.
“The main criteria for PA/PPR occupants to lose their eligibility is when they have other houses and have high incomes and can afford luxury cars.
“However, for those with high incomes but with many dependents, DBKL is considerate and still allows them to continue living at the PA/PPR units,” he told reporters after handing over offer letters to 20 recipients of the DBKL’s PA/PPR housing units, here, today.
Edmund said occupants of the PA/PPR houses who are no longer eligible should leave to allow the deserving ones to benefit from it.
On the application for housing from these projects, he said, almost 2,000 out of 30,000 applicants have been approved, so far.
Meanwhile, one of the recipients of the housing units at PA Desa Sri Rejang, Setapak, Mohd Feissal Mohd Yusoff, 28, said he was overwhelmed when informed of the good news.
“I used to rent in a house in Setapak but was forced to move out. As I had problems getting an affordable house to rent, I was forced to move in with my mother-in-law in Bentong, Pahang, and commute daily to work here.
“I was often late for work because of the long journey and I even received a warning letter from my employers,” he added.
Feissal received a house unit at PA Desa Sri Rejang, Setapak.
Another recipient, single mother R Uma, 47, said she was grateful and happy to be chosen as a recipient after waiting for more than 12 years.
The woman, with three children, received a unit at PPR Sri Johor, Bandar Tun Razak, Cheras.