1,000 PPR units to be managed by DBKL

KUALA LUMPUR: A Memorandum of Understanding on the management of People's Housing Project (PPR) Sri Aman, Kepong, was signed between the Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Ministry and Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL).
The MoU was for the transfer of 1,000 units of the PPR to be managed by DBKL, from the total 1,600 units built under the project.
The other 600 units would be managed by the ministry.
The MoU was signed by the ministry's secretary-general Datuk Mohammad Mentek and KL mayor Datuk Seri Mohd Amin Nordin Abd Aziz in a ceremony at Perdana Putra here.
The signing ceremony was witnessed by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak, accompanied by Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister Tan Sri Noh Omar and Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor.
Tengku Adnan said the 1,000 units would be managed under the rent--to-own scheme to residents living in squatters in Jinjang.
He said the handing over of the PPR's units to DBKL would alleviate the rampant squatting problems currently faced in Jinjang and its surrounding areas.
"The squatter residents have been living there for a long time. Now, the houses will be given to them just as we had promised some time ago," he told reporters after the signing ceremony.
The PPR was built on a 9.82 acre land owned by DBKL and was completed in 2015 with a cost of RM215.9 million.
It was reported in April last year that DBKL had plans to move a total of 991 of residents from the Jinjang Utara longhouse to reside in the PPR.
Deputy Federal Territories Minister Datuk Dr Loga Bala Mohan had reportedly said only the original residents of the longhouse, namely from Sungai Udang Segambut, KTM, Batu, Kepong, Segambut and Sentul squatters would receive a unit at the PPR.
Earlier, Najib chaired the first National Housing Council meeting for 2017 at Perdana Putra, which was also attended by Noh and several other cabinet ministers and government officials.