THE Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) in response to StarMetro’s article on Oct 22 titled ‘10 Years On and Still No Homes’ said the 200 squatter families whose homes were affected by the KL Linear City Project were offered low-cost units at RM42,000 each in 2003.
Since there was no housing project involved in the sales programme at that time, 150 of the squatter families were offered to be relocated to the PPR Muhibbah in Puchong and the remaining 50 to PPR Salak South on Dec 15, 2004.
From the said total, only 48 families accepted the offer to move to PPR Muhibbah and 21 to PPR Salak South and the remaining 131 families opted to relocate on their own.
In the article, it was reported that the 200 families were left with nothing after their squatter homes along the Klang River were demolished 10 years ago.
Now they’re hoping to be given the opportunity to purchase any low-cost homes available.
The squatters’ homes were demolished to make way for the KL Linear City Project, but the government project was abandoned at the height of the economic crisis in 1998.
Each affected family was offered a choice of two compensation packages — RM22,000 in cash or the purchase of a unit of the Bukit Jalil flats at RM45,000.
The 200 families opted for the latter.
In 2001, the company developing the project had offered them PKNS flats in Sungai Besi in 1998 and flats in Sungai Buloh in 1999, which cost between RM55,000 and RM72,000.
However, since the location of these flats were far from their current homes, the families refused the offer.
The DBKL said that for the sales of PPR that was announced by the Prime Minister on Oct 10, PPR Muhibbah and PPR Salak South were listed too.
The sales briefing by the DBKL had already been conducted in the respective PPRs on Oct 13.
The 69 families who took up the PPR offer earlier would be allowed to purchase the units.
As for the remaining 131 families, the DBKL will be contacting them soon with an offer to purchase units at PPR Muhibbah.
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