JOHOR BARU – The Johor government will apply to the Local Government Development Ministry to list the construction of the Larkin People’s Housing Programme (PPR) here under the 12th Malaysia Plan (12MP).
State Housing and Local Government Committee chairman Datuk Mohd Jafni Md Shukor said the application would be made soon as housing demand had increased in Larkin with population growth.
“We will make two proposals on the building cost – between RM86 million and RM150 million. The Johor government has already settled technical, documentation and land matters, and related transactions.
“We hope the Local Government Development Ministry will consider our application for the Larkin PPR construction as it is the only PPR we are applying for under 12MP,” he told a press conference after launching the Jom Turun @ PPR Sri Stulang and Sri Iskandar programmes here today.
He said six PPR projects were still under construction – in Pengerang, Ulu Tiram, Permas Jaya, Masai, Bandar Tenggara, and Sembrong.
Jafni also reminded the 14,000 tenants in 13 PPR and seven Rumah Sewa Kerajaan (RSK) in the state to start paying their monthly rentals by the seventh of every month beginning January 2023.
He said the state government had given rental waivers for PPR and RSK residents in 2021 and 2022 because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Meanwhile, he said the state government had detected 19 cases of a syndicate masquerading as agents of Rumah Mampu Milik Johor and PPR programmes to cheat people to the tune of RM122,000.
He said the syndicate was reported to have been operating since July last year and its mastermind was a 55-year-old man who had since been charged in court.
He said the victims claimed that they were promised the houses they were applying for and had paid deposits of RM500 to RM5,000 each. – Bernama, January 1, 2023
