Government offers victims interest-free loans to rebuild homes
SUNGAI PETANI: The Government will use money from the RM100mil allocated for national housing projects this year to help tsunami victims rebuild their homes.
Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Dr Ng Yen Yen said the victims would be offered interest-free loans to rebuild their houses on their own land.
She announced this after visiting tsunami victims at the SK Kota Kuala Muda relief centre, near here, yesterday.
Under the project, called Rumah Mesra Rakyat (People's Friendly Housing Scheme), the houses would be built at the request of the victims, she said, adding that it would be implemented in Langkawi and Kota Kuala Muda in Kedah, Tanjung Tokong, Tanjung Bungah, Balik Pulau and Seberang Prai in Penang.
She said the houses would be built by the National Housing Company Bhd.
The houses would be built either on elevated flat land or on stilts, adding that those built on flat land would cost RM40,000 each and RM50,000 each for the other type.
She said the Government would subsidise RM13,333 for the first type and RM16,666 for the second.
Dr Ng said under the scheme, the people could either pay RM100 monthly for 22 years or RM50 monthly for 44 years.
She said the state government had identified a site in Padang Katong for the construction of 150 temporary houses for hardcore poor families hit by the tsunami.
“They will later be transferred to new low-cost housing schemes elsewhere,” she said.
She said those with fully or partially damaged houses but were not in the hardcore poor group and did not have their own land should wait for the government to assess the damages they suffered.
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