SHAH ALAM, 5 Dec: A buyer of a home at an abandoned housing project expressed disappointment to Selangor Kini due to the failure of the developer to complete the house bought since 1997 until now, which has been left dilapidated without care.
Just wanting to be known as ‘Cikgu Teraniaya’ (Betrayed Teacher), he informed that the Heart Type Phase 2 of the Taman Lembah Beringin Project should have been ready in 1999 and could be occupied at latest around 2000, but it was all disappointed.
What is more disappointing is that the project developer’s company has been blacklisted by the government and until now, he has to continue the monthly payments amounting more than RM400 through salary deductions.
According to him, the house price is around RM99,000 and it was left abandoned after 50 percent of it was completed.
He also informed that the government paid RM50,000 to the developer company and buyers also had to continue paying the balance of the project.
“This project began since my child was young until my child sat for the SPM examinations.
“For the record, I took a government loan and the salary deductions are still being carried out for the payment for 50 percent (completed) stage which was paid by the government to the developer.
“The government was generous enough to give me a relief in interest payments after the status of the house was identified as being abandoned.
“Previously, the payment made was around RM600 a month, but it has been reduced to RM400 after receiving a relief in interest payment,” said the teacher who was teaching in Kedah which this project was first abandoned.
He said that a meeting with the National Housing Company Berhad (SPNB) was held in 2002 with betrayed buyers, but the final say could not be made at that time because there was no agreement from 75 percent of buyers for this project to be restored.
“I want to ask whether the Selangor Government Budget 2015 which was recently announced has provisions to restore abandoned houses, and if the Lembah Beringin abandoned project is listed as one of the projects to be restored?
“I hope for concrete action to defend the fate of the oppressed buyers by irresponsible parties can be taken by the government, either the federal or state government,” he added.
During the Selangor State Assembly session, the Exco for Housing, Building Management and Urban Settlers, Iskandar Abdul Samad, said that the Selangor government has completed 51 abandoned housing projects since March 2008 until 30 November 2014, involving 26,285 housing units.
In a study, the Abandoned Project Rehabilitation Committee (JPPT) found that 51 projects consist of 28 licensed projects and 23 unlicensed projects.
NS
