New homes for Kedah tsunami victims
PUTRAJAYA: The national housing corporation, Syarikat Perumahan Negara Bhd (SPNB), will build new homes for tsunami victims in Kota Kuala Muda under the rumah mesra rakyat (people-friendly houses) scheme.
Those who have land can apply for subsidised rates for the houses while the rest can approach the Kedah government for help to get the land first.
Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Dr Ng Yen Yen said SPNB was expected to use its RM100mil allocation under Budget 2005 for tsunami-related services in the affected areas by the first quarter of this year.
The allocation was initially meant for SPNB to build homes for the poor.
Dr Ng said SPNB would basically build two types of houses – one on land and the other on stilts.
The houses on land would cost RM40,000 per unit, with RM13,333 subsidised by the government.
The loan repayment would take 22 years if the buyers opt to pay RM100 per month.
The houses on stilts are priced at RM50,000 and the government would subsidise RM16,666.
The repayment term is 28 years for those who pay RM100 per month.
“Alternatively, they can pay RM50 per month if they cannot afford RM100 but the repayment term will be longer,” she said after witnessing a RM300,000 donation by the Selangor Turf Club to The Sun Tsunami Emergency Supplies Fund here yesterday.
STC chairman Tunku Datuk Seri Shahabuddin Tunku Besar Burhanuddin handed the mock cheque to the daily’s group editor in chief Ho Kay Tat and group managing director Lim Siang Jin.
Earlier, Dr Ng said 150 transitional homes or temporary longhouses would be completed by the end of the week, to house 134 families whose homes were completely destroyed in the tsunami.
“The transitional homes costing RM2mil would each have three bedrooms,” she said.
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