CYBERJAYA, June 28 — Syarikat Perumahan Negara Bhd (SPNB) has completed 15,445 units of Rumah Mesra Rakyat (RMR) two years early, surpassing the 12th Malaysia Plan (12MP) target to build 15,000 RMR units by 2025.
Local Government Development Minister Nga Kor Ming, when speaking yesterday after visiting the Aspire Residence project site which has been abandoned since 2018, said the success of the SPNB contributed to four per cent of the overall 12MP target.
SPNB is an agency under KPKT to provide affordable housing since 1997 and is responsible for building 15,000 RMR units nationwide by 2025 out of the 500,000 units targeted by the government in the 12MP.
Nga said SPNB is now also focusing on completing 12 ‘sick’ housing projects involving 1,711 units, of which all are expected to be completed by the end of this year or the first quarter of next year.
He said the Aspire Residence project is one of the projects SPNB has been reviving since 2020 and now the project has reached 97 per cent progress, while the Certificate of Completion and Compliance will be obtained by October, before the keys are handed over to the buyers.
Nga said throughout the three years under the new management, SPNB has implemented 10 improvements for the RMR programme,.
Among others, the income requirement has been increased to RM5,000 or below from the original income of RM3,000 or below, while the size of the RMR has been adjusted to be in line with the size of other subsidised housing programmes under KPKT.
“This change in income conditions has given the opportunity to 65.4 per cent of rural households to own RMR compared to 30.8 per cent who were eligible previously,” he said.
Nga said the KPKT task force chaired by his deputy Akmal Nasrullah Mohd Nasir had identified 112 abandoned projects worth more than RM5 billion across the country and all the projects are being vigorously restored.
He also gave assurance that there will be no ‘sick’ projects by next year as efforts are being made to restore these projects under the 1Malaysia People's Housing Programme (PR1MA), where 17 projects have been identified and nine of them have been completed.
— Bernama
