DNR: PPR homes now for sale at RM 35,000

Low-income families will have the chance to own the homes built under the people’s housing programme (PPR) starting next year. Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Seri Chor Chee Heung said the Cabinet had agreed to allow the sale of PPR low-cost apartments to families whose household income does not exceed RM2,500 a month.

“The traditional method is to let them stay (in PPR units) and pay rental of RM124, but the Cabinet has agreed that any houses built under PPR can be sold to the rak­yat. “There is only one price for PPR, which is RM35,000, even if it costs more than RM100,000 to build a unit,” Chor said after launching his ministry’s Innovation Day 2012 celebration.

Under Budget 2013, the Govern­ment had set aside RM543mil for the National Housing Department to build 20,454 units of low-cost apartments in 45 PPR schemes across the country.

Chor noted that officers from the department are making on-site visits to areas earmarked for PPR schemes. They will not build at an area where there is clearly no demand. “We don’t want to waste money,” he said, while noting that all states would get at least one PPR scheme on which construction will start next year.